Re: [PATCH 03/18] block: add bio_set_polled() helper

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:35:14AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> For the upcoming async polled IO, we can't sleep allocating requests.
> If we do, then we introduce a deadlock where the submitter already
> has async polled IO in-flight, but can't wait for them to complete
> since polled requests must be active found and reaped.
> 
> Utilize the helper in the blockdev DIRECT_IO code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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