Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:18:37 -0500 (EST) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: Question about Old Fix Me comment in mempool.c |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, nick wrote:
> Greetings Andrew and other maintainers, > I am wondering why the below comment is even in mempool.c and this has not been changed to a call to io_schedule as the kernel version is stupidly old and this should be fixed by now and the issues with DM would have been removed by now. > /* > * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as a > * workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18. > */ > > Sorry for the stupid question but I like to double check with the maintainers before I sent in a patch for things like this to see if I am missing anything:). > > Thanks for Your Time, > Nick
There are still some bugs with respect to this (and they will probably never be removed all) - for example this bug which wasn't fixed yet http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-May/msg00089.html .
So, you should not remove it.
Mikulas
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