Andrew Morton wrote:
Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
get_request_wait needn't unplug the device immediately.
Probably. But what if the get_request(q, rw, GFP_NOIO); did
some sleeping?
It can't sleep unless it returns the request, because it
is using mempool allocs. So any time it returns NULL, it
hasn't slept.
But Jens would have a better idea of the correct behaviour.
Jens, what do you think?
--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
