From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:49:52 -0700 Message-ID: <44E3F570.2020608@google.com> References: <1155127040.12225.25.camel@twins> <20060809130752.GA17953@2ka.mipt.ru> <1155130353.12225.53.camel@twins> <20060809.165431.118952392.davem@davemloft.net> <1155189988.12225.100.camel@twins> <44DF888F.1010601@google.com> <20060814051323.GA1335@2ka.mipt.ru> <1155537943.5696.118.camel@twins> <20060814065454.GA6356@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Zijlstra , David Miller , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.12]:41833 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932247AbWHQEvF (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:51:05 -0400 To: Evgeniy Polyakov In-Reply-To: <20060814065454.GA6356@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:45:43AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: >>>Just pure openssh for control connection (admin should be able to >>>login). >> >>These periods of degenerated functionality should be short and >>infrequent albeit critical for machine recovery. Would you rather have a >>slower ssh login (the machine will recover) or drive/fly to Zanzibar to >>physically reboot the machine? > > It will not work, since you can not mark openssh sockets as those which > are able to get memory from reserved pool. So admin unable to check the > system status and make anything to turn system's life on. This is incorrect, please see my previous email. Regards, Daniel