Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:38:44 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core |
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On Fri, Aug 18 2006, Daniel Phillips wrote: > nearly the same kind of function, and suffering very nearly the same kind > of problems we had in the block layer before mingo's mempool machinery > arrived?
Correction, the block layer wasn't buggy (eg deadlock prone) before mempool, mempool was merely an abstraction that allowed to move this code out of the bio.c file since it was apparent that it had other possible users as well.
-- Jens Axboe
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