Re: [PATCH UPDATED 2/2] mempool: fix first round failure behavior

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Dec 22 2011 - 11:15:32 EST


Hello, Vivek.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> That's a good point. I did not think about module unload. I think then
> my current patch for allocating per cpu object from worker thread is buggy
> as on IO scheduler exit I don't try to flush the possibly in progress
> work[s].

Hmmm... I'm not sure whether backporting the mempool stuff would be a
viable approach for this merge window and -stable and we might have to
come up with some kind of minimal solution. Don't yet know how that
should look like but let's talk about that in a different thread.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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