On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > md/raid doesn't cause any problems here. It preallocates enough to be > sure that it can always make forward progress. In general the entire > block layer from generic_make_request down can always successfully > write a block out in a reasonable amount of time without requiring > kmalloc to succeed (with obvious exceptions like loop and nbd which go > back up to a higher layer).
Hmmm... I wonder if that could be generalized. A device driver could make a reservation by increasing min_free_kbytes? Additional drivers in a chain could make additional reservations in such a way that enough memory is set aside for the worst case? > The network stack is of course a different (much harder) problem. An NFS solution is possible without solving the network stack issue? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
