Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is required in order to allow threads such as rpciod or keventd > itself (for which sleeping may cause deadlocks) to ask the iosem manager > code to simply queue the work that need to run once the iosem has been > granted. That work function is then, of course, responsible for > releasing the iosem when it is done.
I see. I think. Should we be using those aio/N threads for this? They don't seem to do much else... - 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/