On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:51:05AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Another possibility is to do a "yield() until memory available" like > net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:tcp_send_fin() does. OK. > Really, this netlink_ack() case should absolutely fail rarely. > We are talking about at worst a single page allocation to satisfy > this request and for GFP_KERNEL this is all but guarenteed. Yes but some people are paranoid :) On the other hand if you VPN server with thousands of connections gets stuck because nothing was returned from the NETLINK socket... -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
