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Subject: Re: tcp_do_sendmsg() allocation still broken ?
To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:36:57 +0000 (GMT)
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> > Think about nbd. 
> 
> Making tcp_do_sendmsg use GFP_ATOMIC would make it too unreliable for other
> situations. Penalizing the whole system just for nbd is not a good idea.

Nobody is saying that. tcp_do_sendmsg should honour the existing 
sk->allocation flag


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