On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > And it will not solve the deadlock problem in general. (Maybe it > > works for your virtual device, but I wonder...) If the virtual > > device allocates memory during generic_make_request then the memory > > needs to be throttled. > > Daniel, if device process bio by itself, it has a limit and thus it > will wait in generic_make_request() What will make it wait? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html