From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shakeelb@google.com
Cc: edumazet@google.com, willemb@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/packet: simply allocations in alloc_one_pg_vec_page
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 13:40:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200516.134018.1760282800329273820.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200516021736.226222-1-shakeelb@google.com>
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 19:17:36 -0700
> and thus there is no need to have any fallback after vzalloc.
This statement is false.
The virtual mapping allocation or the page table allocations can fail.
A fallback is therefore indeed necessary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-16 2:17 Shakeel Butt
2020-05-16 20:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2020-05-16 22:35 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-05-16 22:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-05-16 23:52 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-05-16 23:39 ` David Miller
2020-05-16 23:59 ` Shakeel Butt
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