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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse•cz>
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 20:41:29 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102152041.29179.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110215093527.GB8341@tiehlicka.suse.cz>

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...

Cheers,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15 10:11 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 [this message]
2011-02-15 10:25   ` Michal Hocko
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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