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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906191239170.20822@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090618.123708.78849607.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote:

> > I understand what you're trying to avoid, but I disagree with the
> > approach of altering the default behavior of GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> The default got changed at some point because it never did
> crap like this before.
> 

Wrong, the page allocator has warned about page allocation failures when 
__GFP_NOWARN was not specified since 2.5.53.  __GFP_NOWARN was never a 
default for GFP_ATOMIC.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-19 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906161203160.27742@p34.internal.lan>
2009-06-16 16:06 ` 2.6.29.1: nfsd: page allocation failure - nfsd or kernel problem? Justin Piszcz
2009-06-16 20:19   ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-17  8:43     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-17  9:43       ` Justin Piszcz
2009-06-17 10:39         ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-17 18:51           ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-06-17 20:24             ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-17 20:39               ` David Rientjes
2009-06-18  8:54                 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-18 17:07                   ` David Rientjes
2009-06-18 17:56                     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-06-18 18:12                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-06-18 18:15                       ` David Rientjes
2009-06-17 22:45               ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-06-18  0:14               ` Zdenek Kaspar
2009-06-17 19:44   ` [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures David Rientjes
2009-06-17 20:16     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-17 20:33       ` David Rientjes
2009-06-17 20:52         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-17 21:12           ` David Rientjes
2009-06-17 22:30             ` Eric Dumazet
2009-06-17 23:08               ` David Miller
2009-06-18 16:56                 ` David Rientjes
2009-06-18 19:00                   ` David Miller
2009-06-18 19:23                     ` David Rientjes
2009-06-18 19:37                       ` David Miller
2009-06-19 19:45                         ` David Rientjes [this message]
2009-06-19 20:41                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19 22:37                           ` David Rientjes
2009-06-19 23:04                             ` David Miller
2009-06-20  1:28                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-19 23:03                           ` David Miller
2009-06-22 16:08 ` 2.6.30: nfsd: page allocation failure - nfsd or kernel problem? (again with 2.6.30) Justin Piszcz

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