Re: xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl]

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 04:41:33 EST

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:12:19AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > One should also consider kmap_atomic... (bcrl suggest)
>
> The problem is that sendmsg() can sleep. kmap_atomic() isn't really
> appropriate here.

100% correct.

Andrea
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