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SubjectRe: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:04:59 +0200

> Would we not hope that most net drivers can handle {,net}dev_alloc_skb()
> failing? Otherwise we have some serious trouble.

False presumption.

Most can but some legacy ones really do not handle this well.



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