On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:26:03AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 20:08 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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Eric said we also need a patch to add __GFP_NORETRY, right?
Probably before this one in series.

Nope, this __GFP_NORETRY has nothing to do with this.

I am not yet convinced we want it.

This needs mm guys advice, as its a tradeoff for mm layer more than
networking...

Well maybe Cc linux-mm then?