Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:42:02 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] net/core: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on network devices | From | Ming Lei <> |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Ming Lei wrote:
> Is this really needed? Even with iSCSI, doesn't register_disk() have > to be called for the underlying block device? And given your 3/6 > patch, wouldn't that mark the network device?
The problem is that network device is not one ancestor of the iSCSI disk device, which transfers data over tcp stack.
Thanks, -- Ming Lei
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