> > This is mostly used by nic to refil their RX skb pool. You add the > > __GFP_MEMALLOC to the allocation to rise the change of a successfull refill > > for the swap case. > > A few drivers use build_skb() to create the skb. __netdev_alloc_skb() > > shouldn't be affected since the allocation happens with GFP_ATOMIC. Looking at > > TG3 it uses build_skb() and get_pages() / kmalloc(). Shouldn't this be some > > considered? > > Please look at net-next, this was changed recently. > > In fact most RX allocations are done using netdev_alloc_frag(), because > its called from __netdev_alloc_skb() Argh, this is what I meant more or less. I got the flag magic wrong so I assumed that this is only called without GFP_ATOMIC but it is not. Thanks for the hint. > So tg3 is not anymore the exception, but the norm. Sebastian -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>