Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:52:02 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86 |
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Hi!
> The scenario Steve outlined was rather optimistic - more pessimistic > case would be e.g: > you run NBD which calls the network stack with an complex file system on top > of it called by something else complex that does a GFP_KERNEL alloc and VM > wants to flush a page via the NBD file system -
Actually, at this point we are dead anyway because of locks in NBD. NBD should be carefull to use GFP_NOIO. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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