netdev - Re: [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for dropped packets

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Message-ID: <1369721333.22004.24.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 27 May 2013 23:08:53 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, atomlin@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	pshelar@...ira.com, mst@...hat.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
	aquini@...hat.com, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for
 dropped packets

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 23:04 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> If dump_stack are scary, they are scary for every k[mz]alloc() users,
> not only __alloc_skb_alloc()

True, but perhaps they are relatively rarer though
for non net use cases.


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