linux-kernel - Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.

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Message-Id: <20080402.114545.17950613.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	csnook@...hat.com, davej@...emonkey.org.uk,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures.

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:04:59 +0200

> Would we not hope that most net drivers can handle {,net}dev_alloc_skb()
> failing? Otherwise we have some serious trouble.

False presumption.

Most can but some legacy ones really do not handle this well.

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