netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] net/rds: suppress page allocation failure error in recv buffer refill

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Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:34:16 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@...cle.com>
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, aruna.ramakrishna@...cle.com,
        rama.nichanamatlu@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] net/rds: suppress page allocation failure error
 in recv buffer refill

On Tue,  6 Oct 2020 14:31:37 -0700 Manjunath Patil wrote:
> RDS/IB tries to refill the recv buffer in softirq context using
> GFP_NOWAIT flag. However alloc failure is handled by queueing a work to
> refill the recv buffer with GFP_KERNEL flag. This means failure to
> allocate with GFP_NOWAIT isn't fatal. Do not print the PAF warnings if
> softirq context fails to refill the recv buffer. We will see the PAF
> warnings when worker also fails to allocate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@...cle.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks!