Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 15:46:07 EST


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote:

> > I understand what you're trying to avoid, but I disagree with the
> > approach of altering the default behavior of GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> The default got changed at some point because it never did
> crap like this before.
>

Wrong, the page allocator has warned about page allocation failures when
__GFP_NOWARN was not specified since 2.5.53. __GFP_NOWARN was never a
default for GFP_ATOMIC.
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