From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: allow more than one in-flight
	request
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:22:54 +1100
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On Friday 28 March 2008 03:29:48 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Allow more than one in-flight request in the virtio ring. This allows
> the host driver to submit requests in parallel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

For a moment, I thought this was true and felt very stupid :)

For the record, the mempool_alloc becomes kmalloc with fallback to the pool.  
We only need one because we can make progress with one request at a time if 
we have to.

Cheers,
Rusty.

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