Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:

You want to point me at the relevant workqueue code? I'd really like to
see what you did there, it's entirely possible you're aware of some
issue I'm not but if not I'd like to take a stab at it.

I was mistaken.  The issue was that adding @gfp_flags to
kthread_create() wasn't trivial involving updates to arch callbacks,
so the timer was added to side-step the issue.  So, yeah, if it can be
made to work w/o timer, I think that would be better.

Thanks.

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tejun