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Re: BUG in tcp.c ?

To: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: BUG in tcp.c ?
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:14:41 -0300 (BRST)
Cc: eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > 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.

So do I, but maybe there are more hidden traps to get stuff
working /reliably/ ...

> > 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.

It's not a /very/ urgent thing, but there are some people out
there using Linux on diskless machines who /would/ like to
have the ability to use swap space from those machines...

(and if the TCP/IP issues aren't that hard, I'll try and work
out the VM issues involved with this problem)

regards,

Rik
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