Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2

[Matt Mackall]

> > For the sake of our other readers, I'll point out that mempool doesn't
> > intrinisically reduce deadlock odds to zero unless we have a hard
> > limit on requests in flight that's strictly less than pool size.
> 
> That's not true, depends entirely on usage. It's not a magic wand. And
> you don't need a hard limit, you only need progress guarentee.

Yes, definitely depends on usage.

> Typically just a single pre-allocated object can make you 100%
> deadlock free, if stacking is not involved. So for most cases, I
> think it would be much better if you just hard wired min_nr to 1,
> that would move you from 90% to 99% safe :-)

Sure, I've considered that. I'll put an option for that on my todo list.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting
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