linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/16] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc

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Message-ID: <20120710111242.GD14154@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:12:42 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux-Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc from
 skb_alloc_page to skb

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> > I can update e1000 if you like but it's not critical
> > to do so and in fact getting a bug reporting saying that network swap
> > was slow on e1000 would be useful to me in its own way :)
> No, leave as it, I was just curious.
> One thing: Do you think it makes sense to you introduce
> 	#define GFP_NET_RX     (GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_MEMALLOC)
> 
> and use it within the receive path instead of GFP_ATOMIC?
> 

For now, I'd prefer to keep the __GFP_MEMALLOC flag at the different
callsites because it forces people to think about what it means.  I fear
that GFP_NET_RX may be too easy to misuse without thinking about what the
consequences are.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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