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Re: [RFC 5/7] net: Add allocation flag to rtnl_unicast()

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On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 12:15 +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
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> Thanks for comment.
> 
> I have selected GFP flags based on existing code.
> 
> I have selected GFP_ATOMIC in inet6_netconf_get_devconf() because
> skb was allocated with GFP_ATOMIC.

Point is : we should remove GFP_ATOMIC uses as much as we can.

Everytime we see one of them, we should think why it was added
and if this is really needed.

inet6_netconf_get_devconf() is a perfect example of one careless
GFP_ATOMIC usage

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/646291/






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