Re: [PATCH 7/9] block: implement bio_associate_current()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:01:28AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Yeah, AFAICS, if the cloning task hasn't issued IO before, CLONE_IO is
> > ignored.
> 
> Will it make sense to try to allocate and attach io_context and then 
> share it in copy_io()?

Yeap, that's probably what we should do on CLONE_IO.

> Well, you are planning to kill CLONE_IO altogether, so it does not
> make a difference.

Heh, I was just thinking about sending out a RFC patch.  I mean,
CLONE_IO handling that severely broken and nobody noticing for such
long time doesn't look good, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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