On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:08:56 +0400 (MSD) kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > Another possibility is to do a "yield() until memory available" like > > net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:tcp_send_fin() does. > > In theory it could be called from softirq context. > It does not happen when nlmsg_ack is called synchronously, but... netlink_ack() must never be invoked from softirq context, that is why it uses GFP_KERNEL for alloc_skb() call. - : 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