From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:14:10 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet
>
> Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
> ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be not needed at
> that time, since mlx4 never used __GFP_MEMALLOC allocations anyway.
On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 18:11 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On 18.01.2017 17:23, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > Take a look at sk_filter_trim_cap(), where the RX packets received on a
> > socket which does not have SOCK_MEMALLOC is dropped.
> >
> > /*
> > * If the skb was alloc
On 18.01.2017 17:23, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 12:31 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
On 18.01.2017 07:14, Eric Dumazet wrote:
From: Eric Dumazet
Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be
On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 12:31 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On 18.01.2017 07:14, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet
> >
> > Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
> > ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be not needed at
> > that time,
On 18.01.2017 07:14, Eric Dumazet wrote:
From: Eric Dumazet
Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be not needed at
that time, since mlx4 never used __GFP_MEMALLOC allocations anyway.
As using memory reserves
From: Eric Dumazet
Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be not needed at
that time, since mlx4 never used __GFP_MEMALLOC allocations anyway.
As using memory reserves is a must in some situations (swap over NF
