Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:54:31 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:32:33 +0200
> The idea is to drop all !NFS packets (or even more specific only > keep those NFS packets that belong to the critical mount), and > everybody doing critical IO over layered networks like IPSec or > other tunnel constructs asks for trouble - Just DON'T do that.
People are doing I/O over IP exactly for it's ubiquity and flexibility. It seems a major limitation of the design if you cancel out major components of this flexibility.
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