From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:25:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2F51B5.6060105@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=t9FQaUhnXCk51bjZO82F8OGDDd9H5HyMPRPQd@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-01-13 20:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
>>
>> Pekka Enberg (1):
>> floppy: replace NO_GEOM macro with a function
>
> Hmm. When I see work on floppy.c, I end up wondering what happened to
> the work by Stephen to use a single threaded workqueue?
>
> That was reported to fix a KVM oops at some point to to avoiding the
> whole race between interrupts/workqueues, but it seems to have dropped
> off everybody's radar. I don't think anybody ever tested it on real
> hardware, but I'm still wondering..
Not sure, I don't recall seeing it.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-13 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 13:53 [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38 Jens Axboe
2011-01-13 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 19:25 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-01-13 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 21:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-13 22:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 0:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 2:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 6:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch
2011-01-20 2:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
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