Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bioallocation by stacking drivers

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Wed Aug 29 2012 - 13:32:45 EST


On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:23:36PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:13:45AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Only on allocation failure.
>
> Which as you already said assumes wrapping together the other mempools in the
> submission path first...

Yes? I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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