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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
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Hi!

> > what you say sound a lot like a hacker solution ("check that it uses the
> > right GFP_ levels"). I think it's about time that this deficit of linux
> 
> Nope. I'm simply advising people to check that nbd is correctly written.

This bug is unlikely to be in nbd, but you need to check whole network
stack. Even arp handling is cruical for working nbd swap!
								Pavel
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