On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:27:44PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > The possibility of removing retry and cancelation came up a few times > plumbers this year. I finally gave it a try. > > Removing retry is a good iea. It's of little value because retry > happens in a kernel thread, not in the submitter's task. Getting rid of retry is probably a good idea. > I'm ambivalent about removing cancelation. The code is almost > never used, though, so I figured it'd be interesting to see > if we can get away with getting rid of it. Canellation *cannot* be removed. If you remove cancellation, processes with outstanding ios at exit() time will never release their resources. -ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
