On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, David Miller wrote: > > 2) taskfile ops with CFQ scheduler bomb because the taskfile > code allocates a request then changes it's direction (e.g. > READ vs. WRITE) and this makes CFQ explode. Fix by allocating > the correct request type from the beginning. From Mikulas Patocka. Hmm. Isn't this -stable material too? At least ide-taskfile.c hasn't changed since 2.6.33? Or is the cfq behavior new, and nobody simply cared before? I looked a bit at the cfq changes since 2.6.33, and none of them seemed to be relevant. But I didn't look very closely. Hmm? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
