Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762548AbZFKJvw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761725AbZFKJvm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:42 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:35560 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760643AbZFKJvl (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090611.025143.72222412.davem@davemloft.net> To: divy@chelsio.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swise@opengridcomputing.com, akpm@odsl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb3: remove __GFP_NOFAIL usage From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090610092521.8871.39255.stgit@speedy5> References: <20090610092521.8871.39255.stgit@speedy5> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 23 From: Divy Le Ray Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:25:21 -0700 > From: Divy Le Ray > > Pre-allocate a skb at init time to be used for control messages to the HW > if skb allocation fails. > > Tolerate failures to send messages initializing some memories at the cost of > parity error detection for these memories. > Retry sending connection id release messages if both alloc_skb(GFP_ATOMIC) > and alloc_skb(GFP_KERNEL) fail. > Do not bring the interface up if messages binding queue set to port fail to > be sent. > > Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/