Re: tcp_do_sendmsg() allocation still broken ?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 06:36:57 EST

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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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