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Message-Id: <20090618.120034.246557840.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: rientjes@...gle.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@...il.com, jpiszcz@...idpixels.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
> I disagree, page allocation failure messages show vital information about
> the state of the VM so that we can find bugs and GFP_ATOMIC allocations
> are the most common trigger for these diagnostic messages since
> __GFP_WAIT allocations can trigger direct reclaim (and __GFP_FS
> allocations can trigger the oom killer) to free memory and will retry the
> allocation if ~__GFP_NORETRY.
It's COMPLETELY and ABSOLUTELY normal for GFP_ATOMIC allocations to
fail in the networking.
If you warn it will just spam the logs, and on a router forwarding
millions of packets per second are you sure that can ever be sane?
Use statistics and tracing if necessary, but log spam no way...
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