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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	lord@sgi.com, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:52:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020602155202.F219@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020604225539.F9111@redhat.com> <1023315323.17160.522.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20020605183152.H4697@redhat.com> <20020605.161342.71552259.davem@redhat.com> <m3d6v5mcm2.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>

Hi!

> The scenario Steve outlined was rather optimistic - more pessimistic
> case would be e.g:
> you run NBD which calls the network stack with an complex file system on top
> of it called by something else complex that does a GFP_KERNEL alloc and VM 
> wants to flush a page via the NBD file system - 

Actually, at this point we are dead anyway because of locks in NBD. NBD should
be carefull to use GFP_NOIO.
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-09 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-05  2:55 [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 15:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-05 18:43   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 18:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-05 21:07       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 22:15 ` Steve Lord
2002-06-05 22:31   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-05 23:13     ` David S. Miller
2002-06-06  0:24       ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-06  1:15       ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-02 15:52         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-06-09 18:50           ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-06  1:42         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-06  2:30           ` Stephen Lord
     [not found] <20020604225539.F9111@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206050820100.2941-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020605144357.A4697@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-06-05 20:40     ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-05 20:55       ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-06 13:32 Ulrich Weigand
     [not found] <mailman.1023370621.16639.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-06-06 17:37 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-06-07  1:06   ` David S. Miller
2002-06-06 19:24 Ulrich Weigand
     [not found] <OF70FD985F.A9C66B00-ONC1256BD0.0069C993@de.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-06-06 19:49 ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-06 20:27   ` David Mosberger
2002-06-07 11:28   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-06 20:55 Ulrich Weigand
2002-06-06 21:19 ` David Mosberger
2002-06-06 22:10   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-06-07  0:59   ` William Lee Irwin III

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