Re: [PATCH 07/17] net: Introduce sk_gfp_atomic() to allow additionof GFP flags depending on the individual socket

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:06:39PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 12:44 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Introduce sk_gfp_atomic(), this function allows to inject sock specific
> > flags to each sock related allocation. It is only used on allocation
> > paths that may be required for writing pages back to network storage.
> > 
> > [davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Use sk_gfp_atomic only when necessary]
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/net/sock.h    |    5 +++++
> >  net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |    9 +++++----
> >  net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c   |    8 +++++---
> >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> > index 803cbfe..440b47e 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> > @@ -2461,7 +2461,8 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
> >  
> >  	if (cvp != NULL && cvp->s_data_constant && cvp->s_data_desired)
> >  		s_data_desired = cvp->s_data_desired;
> > -	skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15 + s_data_desired, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > +	skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15 + s_data_desired, 1,
> > +			   sk_gfp_atomic(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
> >  	if (skb == NULL)
> >  
> 
> This bit no longer applies on net-next, sock_wmalloc() was changed to a
> mere alloc_skb()
> 

Thanks, I'll rebase and retest.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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