Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sat Aug 12 2006 - 06:49:45 EST


On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:42:26PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Hence the alternative allocator to use on tight memory conditions.
>
> If transferred to your implementation, then just steal some pages from
> SLAB when new network device is added and use them when OOM happens.
> It is much simpler and can help in the most of situations.

And just to make things clear - I do not insult your implementation
in any way, it can be 100% correct and behave perfectly.
I'm just saying that there are other methods to solve the problem which
seems to me more appropriate.

--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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