Re: [RFC] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 05:52:02PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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.

Reread what I wrote. It does not involve NBD recursing.

-Andi