Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:01:01 -0700 | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers | From | Tejun Heo <> |
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Hello,
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Note that this doesn't do anything for allocation from other mempools. > > Note that dm has several cases of this, so this patch should not be used with > dm yet. Mikulas is studying those cases to see whether anything like this > might be feasible/sensible or not.
IIUC, Kent posted a patch which converts all of them to use front-pad (there's no reason not to, really). This better come after that but it's not like this is gonna break something which isn't broken now.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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