From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:38:44 +0200 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 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 Return-path: 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 To: Daniel Phillips Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E650C1.80608@google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.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