Re: xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl]

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 18:04:30 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:56:14PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
>
> > 2.5.62 has the very same deadlock condition in xdr triggered by
> > nfs too.
> > Andrew, if you're forward porting it yourself like with the
> > filebacked vma merging feature just let me know so we make sure
> > not to duplicate effort.
>
> For 2.5.x we should rather fix MSG_MORE so that it actually works
> instead of messing with hacks to kmap().
>
> For 2.4.x, Hirokazu Takahashi had a patch which allowed for a safe
> kmap of > 1 page in one call. Appended here as an attachment FYI
> (Marcelo do *not* apply!).

One should also consider kmap_atomic... (bcrl suggest)

        Jeff

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