On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:29:03AM -0800, Bryan Henderson wrote: > I'd like to remind everyone that user space processes aside, there's still > a basic ISCSI initiator resource inversion that needs to be fixed to avoid > deadlock: > > ISCSI initiator driver sits below the memory pool > (I..e a pageout involving ISCSI might be prerequisite to getting memory) > Socket layer sits below ISCSI > (ISCSI initiator driver relies on socket services) > Memory pool sits below socket layer > (socket layer allocates memory from the main pool) > > One might say as long as that's there, close is good enough on the user > space initiator component.
This issue is becoming increasingly pressing and hopefully there'll be a plan for addressing it soon. Unfortunately, none of the proposed solutions help the userspace inversion problem. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
