On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:04:12AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > As I said on chat, don't remove that GFP_IO allocation. The code is > deadlocky anyway and allocation from a mempool with GFP_ATOMIC and, in > case of failure, allocation from memory with GFP_IO is the best that can > be done to reduce the probability of the deadlock. OK - I'll apply this one pending a more-complicated fix that uses the mempool correctly. Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel