Re: [PATCH] 2.4.4 linearize UDP RPC requests using GFP_KERNEL...

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 11 May 2001 02:41:45 -0700 (PDT)


Trond Myklebust writes:
> IMHO allocating the buffer using GFP_ATOMIC is a mistake. As I said
> we're in a thread context, so sleeping in GFP_KERNEL is safe. In
> addition, the cost of dropping the request if we can't allocate the
> buffer is heavy in that the client has to wait for a timeout, and then
> retry.
>
> I'd therefore like to propose the following change.
...
> --- linux-2.4.4/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c.orig Fri Apr 27 23:15:01 2001
> +++ linux-2.4.4/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c Fri May 11 10:08:36 2001
...
> - if (skb_linearize(skb, GFP_ATOMIC) != 0) {
> + if (skb_linearize(skb, GFP_KERNEL) != 0) {

No arguments here.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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