From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
jon.maloy@ericsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1 1/1] tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:32:05 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170116.133205.742000535333252859.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484318785-20749-1-git-send-email-parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:46:25 +0100
> Until now, we allocate memory always with GFP_ATOMIC flag.
> When the system is under memory pressure and a user tries to send,
> the send fails due to low memory. However, the user application
> can wait for free memory if we allocate it using GFP_KERNEL flag.
>
> In this commit, we use allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL for all user
> allocation.
>
> Reported-by: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Applied.
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2017-01-13 14:46 [PATCH net v1 1/1] tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan
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