On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, nick wrote: > Greetings Andrew and other maintainers, > I am wondering why the below comment is even in mempool.c and this has not been changed to a call to io_schedule as the kernel version is stupidly old and this should be fixed by now and the issues with DM would have been removed by now. > /* > * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as a > * workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18. > */ > > Sorry for the stupid question but I like to double check with the maintainers before I sent in a patch for things like this to see if I am missing anything:). > > Thanks for Your Time, > Nick There are still some bugs with respect to this (and they will probably never be removed all) - for example this bug which wasn't fixed yet http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-May/msg00089.html . So, you should not remove it. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>