On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are we really ok with waiting synchronously for an inode while holding > the plug? No chance of deadlock (waiting for IO that we've plugged)? > That issue is true even of the current code, though, and I have _not_ > really thought that through, it's just a worry. Never mind. We still flush the plug on explicit scheduling events. I wonder why I thought we got rid of that. Some kind of "senior moment", I guess. Linus -- 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