Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38

[Jens Axboe]

On 2011-01-13 20:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Pekka Enberg (1):
>>      floppy: replace NO_GEOM macro with a function
> 
> Hmm. When I see work on floppy.c, I end up wondering what happened to
> the work by Stephen to use a single threaded workqueue?
> 
> That was reported to fix a KVM oops at some point to to avoiding the
> whole race between interrupts/workqueues, but it seems to have dropped
> off everybody's radar. I don't think anybody ever tested it on real
> hardware, but I'm still wondering..

Not sure, I don't recall seeing it.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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