From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o88A4RYj028869 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:04:28 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 78FB25556F for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 03:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail16.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.101]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id PXKAxiCbrXDbzzbE for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:05:03 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [2.6.36-rc3] Workqueues, XFS, dependencies and deadlocks Message-ID: <20100908100503.GX705@dastard> References: <20100907072954.GM705@dastard> <4C86003B.6090706@kernel.org> <20100907100108.GN705@dastard> <4C861582.6080102@kernel.org> <4C862F8E.7030507@kernel.org> <20100908082249.GT705@dastard> <4C874E90.5040405@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: 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