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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	bharrosh@panasas.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:45:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120910234534.GD10477@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120910233502.GH7677@google.com>

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:35:02PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> debug.  Would it be difficult to convert dm drivers to collect size
> requirements and use front-pad for all per-bio data?
 
I can't give a quick answer because a single bio may require a variable
number (depending on the bio content) of (sequential) mempool_allocs from the
same mempool to complete its processing, so we do have to audit all this very
carefully to see what can/can't be pulled out.

Alasdair


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-10 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 22:12 [PATCH 0/2] Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation Kent Overstreet
2012-09-07 22:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: Reorder struct bio_set Kent Overstreet
2012-09-07 22:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers Kent Overstreet
2012-09-08 19:36   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10  0:28     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 15:25       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-09-10 17:22       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 20:24         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 20:40           ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 21:33             ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 21:37               ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 21:56                 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 22:09                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 22:50                     ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2012-09-10 23:01                       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 23:06                         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 23:09                         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-09-10 23:35                           ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-10 23:45                             ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2012-09-10 23:01                       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-10 23:13                     ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11 18:36                   ` Muthu Kumar
2012-09-11 18:45                     ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-11 18:58                       ` Muthu Kumar
2012-09-11 19:31                         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-09-11 20:00                           ` Muthu Kumar

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