linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet

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Message-Id: <201102152041.29179.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:41:29 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet_poll

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:05:27 pm Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> we have started seeing a lot of allocator messages complaining about
> failed allocations from virtnet_poll in soft IRQ. Could you consider the
> following patch, please?

Do we really want to silence this?  Isn't warning about it kind of the
point?  Your network is probably sucking if this happens...

Cheers,
Rusty.

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