Re: [ANNOUNCE] Minneapolis Cluster Summit, July 29-30

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 15:52:21 EST


Hi!

> > You missed the point. The memory deadlock I pointed out occurs in
> > _normal operation_. You have to find a way around it, or kernel
> > cluster services win, plain and simple.
> >
>
> The bottom line is that we just don't know if any such deadlock occurs,
> under normal operations. The remaining objections to in-kernel cluster

I did some work on swapping-over-nbd, which has similar issues,
and yes, the deadlocks were seen under heavy load.

*Designing* something with "lets hope it does not deadlock",
while deadlock clearly can be triggered, looks like bad idea.
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