From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030404AbWHUNgd (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:36:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030450AbWHUNgd (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:36:33 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:9058 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030404AbWHUNgc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:36:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:38:44 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , David Miller , riel@redhat.com, tgraf@suug.ch, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Mike Christie Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core Message-ID: <20060821133843.GE4290@suse.de> References: <20060813185309.928472f9.akpm@osdl.org> <1155530453.5696.98.camel@twins> <20060813215853.0ed0e973.akpm@osdl.org> <44E3E964.8010602@google.com> <20060816225726.3622cab1.akpm@osdl.org> <44E5015D.80606@google.com> <20060817230556.7d16498e.akpm@osdl.org> <44E62F7F.7010901@google.com> <20060818153455.2a3f2bcb.akpm@osdl.org> <44E650C1.80608@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E650C1.80608@google.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 18 2006, Daniel Phillips wrote: > nearly the same kind of function, and suffering very nearly the same kind > of problems we had in the block layer before mingo's mempool machinery > arrived? Correction, the block layer wasn't buggy (eg deadlock prone) before mempool, mempool was merely an abstraction that allowed to move this code out of the bio.c file since it was apparent that it had other possible users as well. -- Jens Axboe