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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906191239170.20822@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote:

> > I understand what you're trying to avoid, but I disagree with the
> > approach of altering the default behavior of GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> The default got changed at some point because it never did
> crap like this before.
> 

Wrong, the page allocator has warned about page allocation failures when 
__GFP_NOWARN was not specified since 2.5.53.  __GFP_NOWARN was never a 
default for GFP_ATOMIC.
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