From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com (mail-ig0-f175.google.com [209.85.213.175]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7F96B0032 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:32:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ig0-f175.google.com with SMTP id h15so8138026igd.8 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:32:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-ig0-x235.google.com (mail-ig0-x235.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c05::235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h12si2773274ici.1.2014.12.16.20.32.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ig0-f181.google.com with SMTP id l13so8927129iga.8 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:32:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5491075B.9080609@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:32:27 -0500 From: nick MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Question about Old Fix Me comment in mempool.c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, mpatocka@redhat.com, sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings Andrew and other maintainers, I am wondering why the below comment is even in mempool.c and this has not been changed to a call to io_schedule as the kernel version is stupidly old and this should be fixed by now and the issues with DM would have been removed by now. /* * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as a * workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18. */ Sorry for the stupid question but I like to double check with the maintainers before I sent in a patch for things like this to see if I am missing anything:). Thanks for Your Time, Nick -- 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