Re: [PATCH] block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Oct 30 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> > That's actually a pretty dumb error, I'm surprised it hasn't reared its
> > ugly face in more ways. Presumably because the timeout is usually so
> > long, that we'll get to actually issuing and completing it within the
> > normal timeout anyway.
> 
> Heh... it showed its ugly face in many different ways while I was
> playing with PMP connected via a very long eSATA cable.

Ah :-)

If we had it wired up for eg the old IDE drivers, it would have shown up
quite quickly as well I think.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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