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Andrew Morton authored
keventd is inappropriate for running block request queues because keventd itself can get blocked on disk I/O. Via call_usermodehelper()'s vfork and, presumably, GFP_KERNEL allocations. So create a new gang of kernel threads whose mandate is for running low-level disk operations. It must ever block on disk IO, so any memory allocations should be GFP_NOIO. We mainly use it for running unplug operations from interrupt context.
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