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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse•cz>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet_poll
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:25:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110215102549.GD8341@tiehlicka.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102152041.29179.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15  9:35 [PATCH] virtio: use __GFP_NOWARN for try_fill_recv in virtnet_poll Michal Hocko
2011-02-15 10:11 ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-15 10:25   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2011-02-15 11:09     ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-15 12:42       ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-15 12:39 ` Michal Hocko

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