Re: [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory.

Andi Kleen
2005-08-05T21:55:03Z

> > If that was the policy it would be a quite dumb one and make netpoll
> > totally unsuitable for production use. I hope it is not.
>
> Suggest you rip __GFP_NOFAIL out of JBD before complaining about this.

So you're suggesting we should become as bad at handling networking
errors as we are at handling IO errors?

> > Dave, can you please apply the timeout patch anyways?
>
> Yes, let's go right over the maintainer's objections almost
> immediately after he chimes into the thread. I'll spare the list the
> colorful language this inspires.

Sure when the maintainer has a unreasonable position on something
I think that's justified. Yours in this case is clearly unreasonable.

-Andi