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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:09:16 +0800 From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, Elina Pasheva <epasheva@...rrawireless.com>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, Rory Filer <rfiler@...rrawireless.com>, Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v5] usbnet: allow status interrupt URB to always be active On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote: > On Thursday 11 April 2013 10:31:31 Ming Lei wrote: > >> 'mem_flags' isn't needed any more since we can apply allocation >> of GFP_NOIO automatically in resume path now, and you can always >> use GFP_KERNEL safely. Considered that it is a API, please don't >> introduce it. > > The automatic system goes a long way, but there are corner cases, for example > work queues, which still need mem_flags. Could you explain why work queue need GFP_NOIO? and the use case for usbnet? Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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