From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 17:01:15 -0700 > The reason for the difference between the two is that in the case of > netdev_alloc_skb/frag the netdev_alloc_cache can only be accessed with > IRQs disabled, whereas in the napi_alloc_skb case we can access the > napi_alloc_cache at any point in the function. Either way I am going > to be stuck with differences because of the local_irq_save/restore > that must be called when accessing the page frag cache that doesn't > exist in the napi case. I see, thanks for explaining. -- 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>