netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4 net-next] tg3: provide frags as skb head

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:53:03 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4 net-next] tg3: provide frags as skb head

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 18:42 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > page_address() may return NULL if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled.  And that's
> > going to be a general problem with this scheme on 32-bit machines.
> 
> kmalloc(2048, GFP_ATOMIC) and alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC) uses the same pool
> of LOWMEM pages, so there is no difference here. page_address() is
> guaranteed to work.

Oh, of course, GFP_HIGH is not GFP_HIGHMEM...

Ben.

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