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

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On 2016年07月08日 11:56, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Managing to mix GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL almost randomly as you did in
this patch is definitely not good.

Further more, RTNL is a mutex, held in control path, designed to allow
schedules and waiting for memory under pressure.

We do not want to encourage GFP_ATOMIC usage in control path.

Your patch series gives the wrong signal to developers.




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.

I have used GFP_KERNEL in inet6_rtm_getaddr() by same reason.

> I will send a patch against net/ipv4/devinet.c so that we remove
> GFP_ATOMIC usage there.

Thanks. I will modify my patch based on your new code.

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