Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:48:00 +1100 | Subject | Re: Block layer still stack abuser? |
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On Friday February 16, drzeus-list@drzeus.cx wrote: > I was wondering if the block layer has been changed into a more serialized > manner yet? I've been trying to google this, but so far no luck. I know there > was some talk about removing the stack based approach, but I can't find any > information about where this went. > > If it is currently fixed, a pointer to from which version would be nice.
Might this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22
relate to your question? If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential issues in dm that seem to be holding it up.
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