Re: block: eliminate ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:51PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:

[..]
> > And just to be clear: none of this is a concern for stable right?  It is
> > just the flush-merge code introduced for 2.6.39 that needs fixing?
> 
> I think 2.6.38 needs a -stable fix.  It has the previous version of
> the new flush implementation and is using front insertion.

Tejun,

So wee need this as stable fix because FLUSH request can get ahead of
REQUEUED requests and it can break some drivers?

Thanks
Vivek
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