netdev - Re: [PATCHv2] net: suppress warnings on dev_alloc

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Message-ID: <1463672936.18194.195.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 08:48:56 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] net: suppress warnings on dev_alloc_skb

On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 11:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> Noticed an allocation failure in a network driver the other day on a 32 bit
> system:

Presumably driver could fall back to HIGH memory allocation for the page
frag.