From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Organization: suse.de
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: aio_complete() will never be called in interrupt context
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On Monday 30 June 2008 23:13:26 Zach Brown wrote:
> Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > aio_complete() is never called from interrupt context. It is called from
> > user context or worker threads. Remove disabling interrupts and for
> > kmap_atomic use KM_USER slots instead of KM_IRQ slots.
>
> How are you testing these patches?
>

I did not do any specific testing. Just ran multiple instances of a file-copy 
utility that uses aio and a bit of Chris Mason's aio-stress.

Thanks
Nikanth karthikesan

p.s: Is the archives of the linux-aio list available somewhere? The URL in the 
mail footer seems to be unavailable.


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