linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: pass gfp to add

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Message-Id: <201005031905.58396.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 3 May 2010 19:05:56 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: pass gfp to add_buf

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:56:42 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> virtio-net bounces buffer allocations off to
> a thread if it can't allocate buffers from the atomic
> pool. However, if posting buffers still requires atomic
> buffers, this is unlikely to succeed.
> Fix by passing in the proper gfp_t parameter.

Thanks, applied with the predecessor.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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