Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3.4-rc5] block: iocontext->nr_tasks should be initialized to one | Date | Tue, 01 May 2012 14:48:41 -0400 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 02:31:07PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > [..] >> > But as to actual users, I really don't know. I agree it's probably not >> > that widely used. If google still had that code search, we could get a >> > better idea :-) >> >> I know of one project: the venerable dump/restore utility uses CLONE_IO. > > I thought you wrote cooperating queue logic to fix dump as it was not > using CLONE_IO and IO from multiple threads was going in separate > queues.
That's correct. I believe I sent the patch for dump before the kernel patch was accepted. Plus, it can't hurt, right?
Cheers, Jeff
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