[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Mon Sep 10 23:09:17 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:01:01PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> IIUC, Kent posted a patch which converts all of them to use front-pad

The only patch I saw posted here only handles one of the easier cases so far.

The others are a bit trickier and probably involve a decision about which way to
change an in-kernel dm interface.

Alasdair




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