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SubjectRe: [PATCH 10/17] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves
> > This is mostly used by nic to refil their RX skb pool. You add the
> > __GFP_MEMALLOC to the allocation to rise the change of a successfull refill
> > for the swap case.
> > A few drivers use build_skb() to create the skb. __netdev_alloc_skb()
> > shouldn't be affected since the allocation happens with GFP_ATOMIC. Looking at
> > TG3 it uses build_skb() and get_pages() / kmalloc(). Shouldn't this be some
> > considered?
>
> Please look at net-next, this was changed recently.
>
> In fact most RX allocations are done using netdev_alloc_frag(), because
> its called from __netdev_alloc_skb()

Argh, this is what I meant more or less. I got the flag magic wrong so I assumed
that this is only called without GFP_ATOMIC but it is not. Thanks for the
hint.

> So tg3 is not anymore the exception, but the norm.

Sebastian


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