On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:57:25PM -0500, Mike Marciniszyn wrote: > From: Vinit Agnihotri <vinit.abhay.agnihotri@xxxxxxxxx> > > The current code is problematic when the QP creation and ipoib is used to > support NFS and NFS desires to do IO for paging purposes. In that case, the > GFP_KERNEL allocation in qib_qp.c causes a deadlock in tight memory > situations. Are you trying to do swap over NFS? I didn't think that worked reliably, or has that changed? It doesn't make much sense for one driver to have a different GFP policy for some calls compared with other drivers. Are you sure the GFP agrument shouldn't be pushed up to the real caller? Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html