Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2001 23:32 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > Then we need a gfp parameter in virtually all api functions and the
> > api for host controllers. (Or do a lot of GFP_ATOMIC/GFP_NOIO. I mention
> > this only for completeness' sake.)
>
> You may need to yes. You might also want to prealloc a scratch buffer or
> stuff one in your per instance structure for said usb device and use that.
Done or underway.
> > How deadlockproof is nfs ? Must anything that might be used for nfs stuff
> > use GFP_NOFS ? I hope not, but I better ask.
> > Greg, Alan, what is to be done ?
>
> NFS uses GFP_NOFS as appropriate so should always do the right thing
> itself.
What about the physical network io path ?
IIRC and I may very well be wrong nfs now uses the page cache.
Thus for any nfs write the rules for block device memory allocation
should apply. Could you please elaborate ?
Regards
Oliver
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