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

Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-12T10:51:19Z

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:42:26PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) 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.

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Evgeniy Polyakov