Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:03:42 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers |
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Hello,
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > You want to point me at the relevant workqueue code? I'd really like to > see what you did there, it's entirely possible you're aware of some > issue I'm not but if not I'd like to take a stab at it.
I was mistaken. The issue was that adding @gfp_flags to kthread_create() wasn't trivial involving updates to arch callbacks, so the timer was added to side-step the issue. So, yeah, if it can be made to work w/o timer, I think that would be better.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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