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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:39:36 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: mel@....ul.ie, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, htd@...cy-poultry.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net-dccp: Suppress warning about large allocations from DCCP Em Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:15:02PM -0700, David Miller escreveu: > From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:43:34 +0100 > > > The DCCP protocol tries to allocate some large hash tables during > > initialisation using the largest size possible. This can be larger than > > what the page allocator can provide so it prints a warning. However, the > > caller is able to handle the situation so this patch suppresses the warning. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > > It's probably much more appropriate to make this stuff use > alloc_large_system_hash(), like TCP does (see net/ipv4/tcp.c > tcp_init()). > > All of this complicated DCCP hash table size computation code will > simply disappear. And it'll fix the warning too :-) He mentioned that in the conversation that lead to this new patch series, problem is that alloc_large_system_hash is __init, so when you try to load dccp.ko it will not be available. - Arnaldo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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