Jeff Mahoney wrote: > No, it's not, and deadlock is definitely possible. However, if we're at > the point where memory is tight enough that it's an issue, the timer can > expire and all the pending i/o is dropped just as it would be without > the multipath code enabled. Followed by requesting a dialog to tell the user that their dirty data/metadata has been dropped :) -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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