From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:19:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110113141957.1eaf4940@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=PDEyJNN3aKhHWzCKrTfzib-VCdvgD7auoWuzD@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:40:09 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
> > On 2011-01-13 20:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Pekka Enberg (1):
> >>> floppy: replace NO_GEOM macro with a function
> >>
> >> Hmm. When I see work on floppy.c, I end up wondering what happened to
> >> the work by Stephen to use a single threaded workqueue?
> >>
> >> That was reported to fix a KVM oops at some point to to avoiding the
> >> whole race between interrupts/workqueues, but it seems to have dropped
> >> off everybody's radar. I don't think anybody ever tested it on real
> >> hardware, but I'm still wondering..
> >
> > Not sure, I don't recall seeing it.
>
> It was on lkml a few months ago. google finds it with "floppy: use
> single threaded workqueue" if you don't have your own archives.
>
> Eg:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/6/11/4582074
>
> and similar.
>
> Linus
It looks my floppy format problem wasn't my patch but the HPET-MSI
problem. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69588/
Why hasn't that been fixed in mainline kernel?
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 13:53 [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38 Jens Axboe
2011-01-13 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-13 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 21:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-13 22:19 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-01-14 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 0:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 2:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 6:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch
2011-01-20 2:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
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