Hi!

> This patch allows a Network Block Device to be mounted locally (nbd-client 
> to nbd-server over 127.0.0.1).
>
> It creates a kthread to avoid the deadlock described in NBD tools 
> documentation. So, if nbd-client hangs waiting for pages, the kblockd 
> thread can continue its work and free pages.

What happens if your new kthread blocks on memory allocation?
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