Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD

From: Daniel Phillips <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:49:52 -0700

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:45:43AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra ([email-masked]) wrote:
>>>Just pure openssh for control connection (admin should be able to
>>>login).
>>
>>These periods of degenerated functionality should be short and
>>infrequent albeit critical for machine recovery. Would you rather have a
>>slower ssh login (the machine will recover) or drive/fly to Zanzibar to
>>physically reboot the machine?
> 
> It will not work, since you can not mark openssh sockets as those which
> are able to get memory from reserved pool. So admin unable to check the
> system status and make anything to turn system's life on.

This is incorrect, please see my previous email.

Regards,

Daniel