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Message-ID: <20210210131556.GA2766@breakpoint.cc>
Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:15:56 +0100
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, zhudi <zhudi21@...wei.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [v3 net-next 08/10] skbuff: reuse NAPI skb cache on allocation
 path (__build_skb())

Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me> wrote:
> we're in such context. This includes: build_skb() (called only
> from NIC drivers in NAPI Rx context) and {,__}napi_alloc_skb()
> (called from the same place or from kernel network softirq
> functions).

build_skb is called from sleepable context in drivers/net/tun.c .
Perhaps there are other cases.

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