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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] dm-mpath: Do not lock up a CPU with requeuing
        activity
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:29:11 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:32:12AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> When using the block layer in single queue mode, get_request()
> returns ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) if the queue is dying and the REQ_NOWAIT
> flag has been passed to get_request(). Avoid that the kernel
> reports soft lockup complaints in this case due to continuous
> requeuing activity.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>