From efb61d2ad24b353a0b5185a3d564d12b029035f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Mironchik <tibor0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:27:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 33764 b: refs/heads/master c:
 0b1d647a02c5a1b67d45287eeb6cb3b2219c41c3 h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]             | 2 +-
 trunk/mm/mempool.c | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 4b880d92470d..ecf6b85771f9 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1e5f5e5cd65eec6ce5c24a9c29f3e52673b121a6
+refs/heads/master: 0b1d647a02c5a1b67d45287eeb6cb3b2219c41c3
diff --git a/trunk/mm/mempool.c b/trunk/mm/mempool.c
index fe6e05289cc5..ccd8cb8cd41f 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/mempool.c
@@ -238,8 +238,13 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	init_wait(&wait);
 	prepare_to_wait(&pool->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 	smp_mb();
-	if (!pool->curr_nr)
-		io_schedule();
+	if (!pool->curr_nr) {
+		/*
+		 * FIXME: this should be io_schedule().  The timeout is there
+		 * as a workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18.
+		 */
+		io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ);
+	}
 	finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait);
 
 	goto repeat_alloc;