Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 17:52:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug() | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Are we really ok with waiting synchronously for an inode while holding > the plug? No chance of deadlock (waiting for IO that we've plugged)? > That issue is true even of the current code, though, and I have _not_ > really thought that through, it's just a worry.
Never mind. We still flush the plug on explicit scheduling events. I wonder why I thought we got rid of that. Some kind of "senior moment", I guess.
Linus
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