netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: do not call ->conn_alloc with GFP

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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:07:47 -0500
From:   Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: do not call ->conn_alloc with GFP_KERNEL

On (02/13/18 12:04), David Miller wrote:
> 
> Let's not over-engineer this.  For one thing, whatever allocation bits
> came down from the callers, we are going to lose here.

Ok, I was wondering how much of the sk_allocation we want to keep in
the future, so I did this admittedly weird thing. I'll change it
to the obvious and submit v3.

--Sowmini