Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers. | Date | Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:02 +1030 |
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On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:52:32 -0800, Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> wrote: > Currently, the refill path for RX buffers will always allocate the > buffers as GFP_ATOMIC, even if we are in process context. This will > fail to apply memory pressure as the worker thread will not contribute > to the freeing of memory. > > Fix this by changing add_recvbuf_small to use the gfp variant allocator, > __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(). > > Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
OK, this is a no-brainer. Thanks! Dave, can you pick this up?
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cheers, Rusty.
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