linux-kernel - Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures

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Message-Id: <20090617.160840.58571632.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, jpiszcz@...idpixels.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:30:58 +0200

> My point is that 99% of callers know allocation failures are
> recoverable.

I agree that, surely for GFP_ATOMIC, warnings should be off
by default.
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