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From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:32:48 -0700
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:23:36PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:13:45AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Only on allocation failure.
>  
> Which as you already said assumes wrapping together the other mempools in the
> submission path first...

Yes? I'm not sure what you're getting at.