From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] bonding: partially back out dev_set_mac_address
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:57:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050407135756.2df03aaa.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504072055.j37KtXDf003795@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:55:33 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Another alternative would be to change the rtnetlink handler to
> not use a sleepable memory allocation, e.g.,
...
> My presumption is that the above would be unacceptable, if for
> no other reason than other notifiers could be attached that also make
> sleepable memory allocations.
You could change it instead to just use gfp_any().
Would that work? The problematic case occurs from softirq
not hardirq right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-07 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-07 19:59 [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2] bonding: partially back out dev_set_mac_address Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-07 20:31 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-07 20:55 ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-07 20:57 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-04-07 21:35 ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-08 12:36 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08 20:58 ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-08 22:16 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08 23:55 ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-09 0:21 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-09 0:31 ` Herbert Xu
[not found] ` <20050424185149.278ffb93.davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-25 12:41 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08 3:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-08 4:45 ` David S. Miller
[not found] <20050426011907.GA13846@gondor.apana.org.au>
[not found] ` <200504260411.j3Q4BYke004030@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>
2005-04-26 11:18 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-27 2:09 ` Jay Vosburgh
2005-04-27 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050407135756.2df03aaa.davem@davemloft.net \
--to=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=fubar@us.ibm.com \
--cc=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=netdev@oss.sgi.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.