Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:46:48 +0400 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD |
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:33:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: > 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.
There is another approach for that - do not use slab allocator for network dataflow at all. It automatically has all you pros amd if implemented correctly can have a lot of additional usefull and high-performance features like full zero-copy and total fragmentation avoidance.
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