Re: block: eliminate ELEVATOR_INSERT_REQUEUE

[Jens Axboe]

On 2011-03-30 17:30, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:22:48AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>> So wee need this as stable fix because FLUSH request can get ahead of
>> REQUEUED requests and it can break some drivers?
> 
> Yes, I think so.  All we need is just replacing elv_insert() calls in
> blk-flush.c with list_add_tail().  Something like the following.  I'll
> test it and send a proper patch later.  Thanks.

I'd suggest I just mark the queued patch for stable.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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