Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:17:55 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD |
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Hi!
> Recently, Peter Zijlstra and I have been busily collaborating on a > solution to the memory deadlock problem described here: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/ > "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths" > > We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is > necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. > We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of > these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern > storage platform. ... > Unfortunately, a particularly nasty form of memory deadlock arises from > the fact that receive side of the network stack is also a sort of
What about transmit side? I believe you need to reply to ARPs or you will be unable to communicate over ethernet... -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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