From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] net: allow > 0 order atomic page alloc in skb_page_frag_refill Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:18:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20140108191803.GB18312@redhat.com> References: <1389072355-20666-1-git-send-email-mwdalton@google.com> <20140108180829.GB18162@redhat.com> <1389205563.31367.1.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1389205563.31367.1.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Michael Dalton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Eric Dumazet , "David S. Miller" List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:26:03AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 20:08 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Eric said we also need a patch to add __GFP_NORETRY, right? > > Probably before this one in series. > > Nope, this __GFP_NORETRY has nothing to do with this. > > I am not yet convinced we want it. > > This needs mm guys advice, as its a tradeoff for mm layer more than > networking... Well maybe Cc linux-mm then?