Re: [PATCH V2] umem: fix up unplugging

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jun 13 2012 - 15:18:03 EST


On Thu, Jun 07 2012, Tao Guo wrote:
> Fix a regression introduced by 7eaceaccab5f40 ("block: remove per-queue
> plugging"). In that patch, Jens removed the whole mm_unplug_device()
> function, which used to be the trigger to make umem start to work.
>
> We need to implement unplugging to make umem start to work, or I/O will
> never be triggered.

Applied this one, dropped the other two. Would still be nice to move
this generic functionality into the block core and unify md/umem in this
regard for 3.6, if you would like to do that.

--
Jens Axboe

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