Re: [BUG] loop.c oopses

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:49:53 -0300 (BRT)


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> That's maybe wrong - if there are a decent number of pages
> under writeback then we should be able to just wait it out.
> But it gets tricky with the loop driver...

I wonder if it is possible to exhaust the mempool with
the loop driver requests before getting around to the
requests to the underlying block device(s)...

regards,

Rik

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