From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756714Ab1AMTZx (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:25:53 -0500 Received: from mx2.fusionio.com ([64.244.102.31]:40626 "EHLO mx2.fusionio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835Ab1AMTZt (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:25:49 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1294946747-71f7b70a0001-xx1T2L X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: JAxboe@fusionio.com Message-ID: <4D2F51B5.6060105@fusionio.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:25:41 +0100 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Stephen Hemminger , Pekka Enberg , Marcelo Tosatti , Tejun Heo , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38 References: <4D2F03F2.4000707@fusionio.com> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: mail1.int.fusionio.com[10.101.1.21] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1294946747 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.101.1.181:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.52283 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2011-01-13 20:00, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jens Axboe 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