On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, nick wrote:
> Greetings Andrew and other maintainers, > I am wondering why the below comment is even in mempool.c and this has not > been changed to a call to io_schedule as the kernel version is stupidly old > and this should be fixed by now and the issues with DM would have been > removed by now. > /* > * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as a > * workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18. > */ > > Sorry for the stupid question but I like to double check with the maintainers > before I sent in a patch for things like this to see if I am missing > anything:). > > Thanks for Your Time, > Nick There are still some bugs with respect to this (and they will probably never be removed all) - for example this bug which wasn't fixed yet http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-May/msg00089.html . So, you should not remove it. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
