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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet_poll
On Tue 15-02-11 20:41:29, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:05:27 pm Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > we have started seeing a lot of allocator messages complaining about
> > failed allocations from virtnet_poll in soft IRQ. Could you consider the
> > following patch, please?
>
> Do we really want to silence this? Isn't warning about it kind of the
> point? Your network is probably sucking if this happens...

What can user do about it? Is the low level memory allocator message
very much usefull for him? Maybe we can add a printk_once in the fail
path with some more useful and virtio specific message.

Thanks
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
Lihovarska 1060/12
190 00 Praha 9
Czech Republic


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