On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:17 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:22:00PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Since the credentials may be allocated during the call to rpc_new_task(), > > which again may be called by a memory allocator... > > Most of these are only called in gssd process's context when it > performs the downcall. Which doesn't change the fact that they're > needed for the rpc_new_task() to succeed, OK, so this isn't an objection > to this patch--but is there any plan for how we'll deal with e.g. memory > allocations that gssd does on its own? You mean alloc_enc_pages()? We should really try to avoid sleeping there... -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
