On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It seems like usb-storage and aio are completely off in the weeds. > > > Ideas? > > > > It seems usb-storage should remove some kmalloc and use mempool() for > > urb... Is someone working on this? And idea? > > I think Pete said that we're supposed to be using GFP_NOIO in there.
We _are_ using it. > Not that it'll help much: the VM calls throttle_vm_writeout() for GFP_NOIO > and GFP_NOFS allocations, which is a bug. Because if the caller holds > locks which prevent filesystem or IO progress, we deadlock. > > I'll fix the VM if someone else fixes USB ;) What else needs to be fixed? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
