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
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