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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: atomlin@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	pshelar@nicira.com, mst@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
	aquini@redhat.com, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for dropped packets
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:39:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A39A3F.8080903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369599557-22677-1-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com>

On 05/26/2013 04:19 PM, atomlin@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
>
> Since v1:
>   - Removed unnecessary parentheses
>
> ---8<---
>
> Failed GFP_ATOMIC allocations by the network stack result in dropped
> packets, which will be received on a subsequent retransmit, and an
> unnecessary, noisy warning with a kernel backtrace.
>
> These warnings are harmless, but they still cause users to panic and
> file bug reports over dropped packets. It would be better to hide the
> failed allocation warnings and backtraces, and let retransmits handle
> dropped packets quietly.

Yes please. Getting memory management bug reports for
dropped network packets got old years ago.  Lets get
rid of those messages.

> Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-27 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-26 20:19 [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for dropped packets atomlin
2013-05-27 17:39 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-05-27 22:25   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28  4:31     ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28  6:04       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28  6:08         ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 17:15       ` Debabrata Banerjee
2013-05-29  7:36     ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-27 17:56 ` Sergei Shtylyov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-26 20:45 atomlin
2013-05-27 18:18 ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-27 22:41 ` Francois Romieu
2013-05-28 16:00   ` Ben Greear
2013-05-28 16:15     ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-28 16:19       ` Ben Greear
2013-05-28 16:29       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 17:43         ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-28 17:46           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 18:03           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 18:19         ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 21:32         ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-28 17:29     ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 21:30   ` Rik van Riel

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