add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt b/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt
--- a/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ b/Documentation/aoe/todo.txt 2005-03-10 12:19:57.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+There is a potential for deadlock when allocating a struct sk_buff for
+data that needs to be written out to aoe storage. If the data is
+being written from a dirty page in order to free that page, and if
+there are no other pages available, then deadlock may occur when a
+free page is needed for the sk_buff allocation. This situation has
+not been observed, but it would be nice to eliminate any potential for
+deadlock under memory pressure.
+
+Because ATA over Ethernet is not fragmented by the kernel's IP code,
+the destructore member of the struct sk_buff is available to the aoe
+driver. By using a mempool for allocating all but the first few
+sk_buffs, and by registering a destructor, we should be able to
+efficiently allocate sk_buffs without introducing any potential for
+deadlock.
--
Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>
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