From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH and question]: dm-table should check for valid
	queue]
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:02:04 +0200
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> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:29:08PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> But what effect should a missing queue have? Same
>> as device is congested or not or let the call fail somehow?
>  
> I'm curious - under what circumstances is this missing:
> Is it intentional, or is it perhaps a race that needs fixing?
> 

More or less intentional. If a device is (virtually) ripped from the
system the driver will throw everything away. Device-mapper still has a
reference to the bdev but the queue is cleaned and removed.
I am not sure whether the any congested call would ever be triggered in
that situation. But at least the unplug all is when user-space tries to
change the maps to remove or replace the missing device. And very likely
the flush all call would be used as well (probably after that).

Stefan