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From: David Miller <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
To: samuel-jcdQHdrhKHMdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org,
	irda-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IrDA] Use alloc_skb() in IrDA TX path
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:38:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060718.153831.22498182.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060719051331.GA3817-jcdQHdrhKHMdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

From: Samuel Ortiz <samuel-jcdQHdrhKHMdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:13:31 +0300

> As pointed out by Christoph Hellwig, dev_alloc_skb() is not intended to be
> used for allocating TX sk_buff. The IrDA stack was exclusively calling
> dev_alloc_skb() on the TX path, and this patch fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel-jcdQHdrhKHMdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

Applied, thanks Samuel.

As followups it would be nice to:

1) See if any of the GFP_ATOMIC's can be moved to GFP_KERNEL.
   I do understand that many of these call sites are running
   in software interrupt context or are holding spinlocks and
   thus must use GFP_ATOMIC.

2) Change these 64 and 128 constant sizes to something with
   a name.

Thanks!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-18 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-19  5:13 [PATCH] [IrDA] Use alloc_skb() in IrDA TX path Samuel Ortiz
     [not found] ` <20060719051331.GA3817-jcdQHdrhKHMdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2006-07-18 22:38   ` David Miller [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20060718.153831.22498182.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-07-19  6:10       ` Samuel Ortiz

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