netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Do not recycle pages from emergency reserve

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Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:28:00 +0200
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Do not recycle pages from emergency reserve

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> A driver using dev_alloc_page() must not reuse a page allocated from
> emergency memory reserve.
>
> Otherwise all packets using this page will be immediately dropped,
> unless for very specific sockets having SOCK_MEMALLOC bit set.
>
> This issue might be hard to debug, because only a fraction of received
> packets would be dropped.
>
> Fixes: 4415a0319f92 ("net/mlx5e: Implement RX mapped page cache for page recycle")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>

Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>