On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, May 29 2000, Steve Dodd wrote:
> > - disable plugging in loop, and whatever kludge is required to avoid the
> > other deadlock
> >
> > - fix loop to stop it sleeping in do_request - stick the pending I/O on
> > another queue which can be serviced by a separate thread (we might be able
> > to avoid this for block device-backed loops)
> Did you ever try the combination of my loopd thread patch _and_ disable
> plugging? I'll have to dig up my patch and try this if not.
Not yet - it's on my to-do list though (I'm syncing up with Linus' patches from
the last few weeks right now)..
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