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From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
To: andrea@suse.DE (Andrea Arcangeli)
Cc: davem@redhat.com (Dave Miller),
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alloc_skb cannot be called with GFP_DMA
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 21:18:11 +0400 (MSK DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108051718.VAA17521@ms2.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010805181606.F21840@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Aug 5, 1 08:45:01 pm

Hello!

> alloc_isa_skb will avoid to slowdown alloc_skb so I prefer it compared
> to hiding the logic inside alloc_skb.

Stop! This is redundant. GFP_DMA is for skb data, not head!

So that, it is enough and right to clear GFP_DMA inside
alloc_skb when allocating skb head.

Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-05 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-05 15:53 alloc_skb cannot be called with GFP_DMA Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-05 16:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-05 16:16   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-05 17:18     ` kuznet [this message]
2001-08-05 18:38       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-26 21:18 Manfred Spraul

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