On Mon, May 29 2000, Steve Dodd wrote:
> - disable plugging in loop, and whatever kludge is required to avoid the other
> deadlock
>
> - fix loop to stop it sleeping in do_request - stick the pending I/O on
> another queue which can be serviced by a separate thread (we might be able to
> avoid this for block device-backed loops)
Did you ever try the combination of my loopd thread patch _and_ disable
plugging? I'll have to dig up my patch and try this if not.
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