netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Update netdev_alloc_frag to work more efficiently with TCP and GRO

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Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:39:40 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Update netdev_alloc_frag to work more efficiently
 with TCP and GRO

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 16:04 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> I was wondering if there were any plans to clean this patch up and
> submit it to net-next?  If not, I can probably work on that since this
> addressed the concerns I had in my original patch.
> 

I used this patch for a while on my machines, but I am working on
something allowing fallback to order-0 allocations if memory gets
fragmented. This fallback should almost never happen, but we should have
it just in case ?



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