Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

It was on lkml a few months ago. google finds it with "floppy: use
single threaded workqueue" if you don't have your own archives.

Eg:

   http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/6/11/4582074

and similar.

                        Linus
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