Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:29:17 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] NBD: allow nbd to be used locally |
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Hi!
> This patch allows a Network Block Device to be mounted locally (nbd-client > to nbd-server over 127.0.0.1). > > It creates a kthread to avoid the deadlock described in NBD tools > documentation. So, if nbd-client hangs waiting for pages, the kblockd > thread can continue its work and free pages.
What happens if your new kthread blocks on memory allocation? Pavel-- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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