Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:47 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: sk_lock: inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage |
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:00:17PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > The (sk_allocation & ~__GFP_WAIT) cases should be rare, but I guess > the networking code shall do it anyway, because sk_allocation defaults > to GFP_KERNEL. It seems that currently the networking code simply uses > a lot of GFP_ATOMIC, do they really mean "I cannot sleep"?
Yep because they're done from softirq context.
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