On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:00:06AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote: > Fixing kmem_alloc() and friends not to fail under certain conditions might > be possible, but it could lead to livelock scenarios where everything is > stuck in the kernel waiting for resources to be freed.
That's a deadlock, not a livelock. But... if we think it's a realistic possibility, why do we allow sleeping allocations at all? And if it's not realistic, why are we worrying? -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
