Re: BUG in tcp.c ?

To:	riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rik van Riel)
Subject:	Re: BUG in tcp.c ?
From:	kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:10:50 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc:	eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to:	<Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091734241.1562-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Rik van Riel" at Oct 9, 0 05:38:40 pm
Sender:	owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx

Hello!

> Hmmm, so we will need some surgery in the TCP (and IP?) code
> to make swap-over-network a reality ? 

I hope that note was irrelevant.


> deep surgery, I'll probably wait until I've fixed some other,
> more urgent, VM issues ...

I do not think that it is urgent. sk->allocation cures nbd.
But the most possibility of dead loop in try_to_free_pages()
opens a flaw, yes.

Alexey

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