Re: [PATCH 3/7] dm-crypt: avoid deadlock in mempools

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On 02/14/2015 02:14 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13 2015 at  5:09P -0500,
> Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>
>>>   * In order to not degrade performance with excessive locking, we try
>>> - * non-blocking allocations without a mutex first and if it fails, we fallback
>>> + * non-blocking allocation without a mutex first and if it fails, we fallback
>>>   * to a blocking allocation with a mutex.
>>>   */
>>>  static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(struct dm_crypt_io *io, unsigned size)
>>
>> There are multiple allocations, so I would leave plural there.
> 
> Fixed, and tweaked the headers (already did that last time around so
> nothing new, you just didn't pick up my headers for your v2).  I pushed
> your patchset to linux-next (for 3.21), see:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=for-next
> 
> Ondrej and Milan, please let us know if you hit any problems with this
> patchset and/or branch.

Will try to test it soon on some strange configurations :)

Just to be sure - nothing of this patchset is planned for 3.20?

(TBH I would like to see it upstream asap but too late for 3.20 here I guess...)

Thanks,
Milan

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