From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John B?ckstrand <sandos@home.se>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory.
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 23:51:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050805215118.GE8266@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050805214224.GW8074@waste.org>
> > If that was the policy it would be a quite dumb one and make netpoll
> > totally unsuitable for production use. I hope it is not.
>
> Suggest you rip __GFP_NOFAIL out of JBD before complaining about this.
So you're suggesting we should become as bad at handling networking
errors as we are at handling IO errors?
> > Dave, can you please apply the timeout patch anyways?
>
> Yes, let's go right over the maintainer's objections almost
> immediately after he chimes into the thread. I'll spare the list the
> colorful language this inspires.
Sure when the maintainer has a unreasonable position on something
I think that's justified. Yours in this case is clearly unreasonable.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-05 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-08-05 11:45 ` lockups with netconsole on e1000 on media insertion Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 12:44 ` John Bäckstrand
2005-08-05 13:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 13:55 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 14:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 14:14 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 14:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 14:36 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-05 15:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 14:36 ` [PATCH] netpoll can lock up on low memory Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 20:01 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-05 20:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 21:28 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-06 0:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-06 1:53 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-06 2:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-06 7:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-06 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-06 23:10 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-06 9:46 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-06 9:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-06 12:09 ` John Bäckstrand
2005-08-07 5:40 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-05 21:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 21:42 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-05 21:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-06 1:16 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-06 0:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-06 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-06 11:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-07 21:12 ` lockups with netconsole on e1000 on media insertion John Bäckstrand
2005-08-08 2:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-05 20:12 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-05 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 23:20 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-05 23:51 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-06 1:22 ` Matt Mackall
2005-08-06 1:37 ` Daniel Phillips
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