> You don't want to always have bad performance though, so you > could attempt to allocate if either the pointer is null _or_ it > points to the global structure?
Remember it's after a GFP_KERNEL OOM. If that fails most likely you have deadlocked somewhere else already because Linux's handling of that is so bad. Suboptimal readahead somewhere is the smallest of your problems. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
