Re: [RFC]md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request

[NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 May 2012 12:31:18 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:32:06PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >>
> >> flush request is issued in transaction commit code path usually, so
> >> looks using
> >> GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic
> >> deadlock issue. dm already gets it right.
> > ping!
> >
> 
> This one should probably also be queued for -stable right?

I suspect so.

I've edited the commit-log message slightly and added a 'cc' for stable,
It is now in my for-next branch.  I'll push to Linus next week.

Thanks Shaohua,

NeilBrown

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