From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:38:44 +0200 From: Jens Axboe 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: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: 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 List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org