Re: [PATCH RESEND] sys_ioprio_set: don't disable irqs

[Jens Axboe]

On Sun, Aug 27 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> It is not good to disable interrupts while traversing all tasks in the system.
> As I see it, sys_ioprio_get() doesn't need to do it at all, sys_ioprio_set()
> does it for cfq_ioc_set_ioprio(), the latter can disable irqs itself.
> 
> Also, add a comment to explain why do we need tasklist_lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

You should work against the 'block' branch in the block git repo, things
tend to change... I've applied your ioprio.c bit, the other one is not
needed anymore.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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