Hi!

Recently, Peter Zijlstra and I have been busily collaborating on a
solution to the memory deadlock problem described here:

   http://lwn.net/Articles/144273/
   "Kernel Summit 2005: Convergence of network and storage paths"

We believe that an approach very much like today's patch set is
necessary for NBD, iSCSI, AoE or the like ever to work reliably. 
We further believe that a properly working version of at least one of
these subsystems is critical to the viability of Linux as a modern
storage platform.

...

Unfortunately, a particularly nasty form of memory deadlock arises from
the fact that receive side of the network stack is also a sort of

What about transmit side? I believe you need to reply to ARPs or you
will be unable to communicate over ethernet...
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Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.