Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] deadlock prevention for NBD

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 24 2006 - 10:41:09 EST


Hi!

> Limit each request to 1 page, so that the request throttling also limits the
> number of in-flight pages and force the IO scheduler to NOOP as anything else
> doesn't make sense anyway.

I'd like to understand why it breaks with other schedulers before
merging this. Maybe the failure in NOOP is just harder to trigger?

Pavel

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