Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers.

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:02 +1030

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:52:32 -0800, Mike Waychison <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Currently, the refill path for RX buffers will always allocate the
> buffers as GFP_ATOMIC, even if we are in process context.  This will
> fail to apply memory pressure as the worker thread will not contribute
> to the freeing of memory.
> 
> Fix this by changing add_recvbuf_small to use the gfp variant allocator,
> __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <[email-masked]>

OK, this is a no-brainer.  Thanks!  Dave, can you pick this up?

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>

Cheers,
Rusty.