Re: refill_inactive()

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 12:12:44 EST


On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> And the network-stack in net/core/sock.c:sock_alloc_send_skb which sounds
> like a bug in this case, and might even be the cause of too many GFP_BUFFER
> allocations in loads suchs as Ingo's.

Hey, good grepping.

That looks like just complete bogosity. The comment on what it actually
wants is not at all what GFP_BUFFER actually does.

It should probably just be a GFP_USER (ie not the GFP_KERNEL "try very
hard").

                Linus

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