Re: [PATCH][RFC] block plugging reworked

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
28 May 2002 12:31:44 +0100

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This patch provides the ability for a block driver to signal it's too
> busy to receive more work and temporarily halt the request queue. In
> concept it's similar to the networking netif_{start,stop}_queue helpers.

I am now a very happy person. That will clean up some much crap in the
i2o and some of the scsi drivers its wonderful

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