netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: use GFP_KERNEL in sctp

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:28:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: use GFP_KERNEL in sctp_init()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:33:39 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> modules init functions being called from process context, we better
> use GFP_KERNEL allocations to increase our chances to get these
> high-order pages we want for SCTP hash tables.
> 
> This mostly matters if SCTP module is loaded once memory got fragmented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.
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