From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming Lei Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] net/core: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on network devices Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:42:02 +0800 Message-ID: References: <1350894794-1494-5-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum , Minchan Kim , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Jens Axboe , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Eric Dumazet , David Decotigny , Tom Herbert , Ingo Molnar List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ming Lei wrote: > Is this really needed? Even with iSCSI, doesn't register_disk() have > to be called for the underlying block device? And given your 3/6 > patch, wouldn't that mark the network device? The problem is that network device is not one ancestor of the iSCSI disk device, which transfers data over tcp stack. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org