From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] amd-xgbe: Add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to Rx buffer allocation
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:27:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150629.092722.310092810741640306.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150629162212.20833.16427.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net>
From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:22:12 -0500
> When allocating Rx related buffers, alloc_pages is called using an order
> number that is decreased until successful. A system under stress can
> experience failures during this allocation process resulting in a warning
> being issued. This message can be of concern to end users even though the
> failure is not fatal. Since the failure is not fatal and can occur
> multiple times, the driver should include the __GFP_NOWARN flag to
> suppress the warning message from being issued.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-29 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-29 16:22 [PATCH net] amd-xgbe: Add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to Rx buffer allocation Tom Lendacky
2015-06-29 16:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-06-29 21:47 ` Tom Lendacky
2015-06-29 21:59 ` David Miller
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