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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:41:33 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
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Subject: Re: xdr nfs highmem deadlock fix [Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl]
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:12:19AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>      > One should also consider kmap_atomic...  (bcrl suggest)
> 
> The problem is that sendmsg() can sleep. kmap_atomic() isn't really
> appropriate here.

100% correct.

Andrea
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