From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:46:48 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD Message-ID: <20060809054648.GD17446@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060808193325.1396.58813.sendpatchset@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060808193325.1396.58813.sendpatchset@lappy> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Phillips List-ID: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:33:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote: > 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. There is another approach for that - do not use slab allocator for network dataflow at all. It automatically has all you pros amd if implemented correctly can have a lot of additional usefull and high-performance features like full zero-copy and total fragmentation avoidance. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org