Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: allow large number of rx queues
From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-18 20:29:18
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Pankaj Gupta [off-list ref] wrote:
As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, __GFP_REPEAT flag is used with kzalloc() to do this fallback only when really needed.
Are you sure we need __GFP_REPEAT? We have vmalloc() as fallback of kmalloc() in many places of networking (grep kvfree), none of those I checked has this flag set.