netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: allocate RX buffers in OOM conditions in PF and VF

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Message-ID: <20170323184718.h6tb5givw27kvbob@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:47:18 -0700
From:   "Burla, Satananda" <Satananda.Burla@...ium.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "Manlunas, Felix" <Felix.Manlunas@...ium.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Vatsavayi, Raghu" <Raghu.Vatsavayi@...ium.com>,
        "Chickles, Derek" <Derek.Chickles@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: allocate RX buffers in OOM conditions
 in PF and VF

The 03/22/2017 19:37, David Miller wrote:
> From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:31:13 -0700
> 
> > From: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@...ium.com>
> >
> > Add workqueue that is periodically run to try to allocate RX buffers in OOM
> > conditions in PF and VF.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@...ium.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
> 
> Applied, but I'm really not so sure you want to poll these queue states
> 4 times a second all the time.
> 
> Why don't you trigger the workqueue when you actually get an allocation
> failure?
That is certainly a better option. We will incorporate that in the
coming series.
-- 
Thanks
Satanand