Hi! > Recently, Peter Zijlstra and I have been busily collaborating on a > solution to the memory deadlock problem described here: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/ > "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths" > > We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is > necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. > We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of > these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern > storage platform. ... > Unfortunately, a particularly nasty form of memory deadlock arises from > the fact that receive side of the network stack is also a sort of
What about transmit side? I believe you need to reply to ARPs or you will be unable to communicate over ethernet... -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
