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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC]md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 06:14:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509061418.0ee36272@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA9_cmc4eT=uwXNdupkxK9_NWW4TLVab5-NBojL9PydHs73zfA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 8 May 2012 12:31:18 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:32:06PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >>
> >> flush request is issued in transaction commit code path usually, so
> >> looks using
> >> GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic
> >> deadlock issue. dm already gets it right.
> > ping!
> >
> 
> This one should probably also be queued for -stable right?

I suspect so.

I've edited the commit-log message slightly and added a 'cc' for stable,
It is now in my for-next branch.  I'll push to Linus next week.

Thanks Shaohua,

NeilBrown

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16  5:32 [RFC]md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request Shaohua Li
2012-05-08 10:18 ` Shaohua Li
2012-05-08 19:31   ` Dan Williams
2012-05-08 20:14     ` NeilBrown [this message]

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