From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com (mail-ie0-f170.google.com [209.85.223.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CABF6B006C for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:06:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id rd18so65532iec.15 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g30si3884049iod.35.2014.12.17.15.06.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:06:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:06:54 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempool.c: Replace io_schedule_timeout with io_schedule Message-Id: <20141217150654.e857603cebd4f97c794a2dff@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1418560486-21685-1-git-send-email-nefelim4ag@gmail.com> References: <1418560486-21685-1-git-send-email-nefelim4ag@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Timofey Titovets Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:34:46 +0300 Timofey Titovets wrote: > io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ); > Introduced for avoidance dm bug: > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-08/msg04869.html > According to description must be replaced with io_schedule() > > I replace it and recompile kernel, tested it by following script: How do we know DM doesn't still depend on the io_schedule_timeout()? It would require input from the DM developers and quite a lot of stress-testing of many kernel subsystems before we could make this change. -- 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