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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 08:56, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 2.5 at least does not have the taskfile hang, because I killed taskfile
> io.

Thats not exactly a fix 8). 2.5 certainly has the others. Taskfile I/O
is pretty low on my fix list. The fix isnt trivial because we set the
IRQ handler late - so the IRQ can beat us setting the handler, but
equally if we set it early we get to worry about all the old races in
2.3.x

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