On Wednesday 03 August 2005 08:39, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> --Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, August 02, 2005
> > Btw I do not get what the mempool/GFP_CRITICAL idea buys: it seems
> > redundant with the threshold ("if (memory_pressure)") used in the Rx path
> > to decide that memory is low.
>
> It's send-side, not receive.
Receive side. Send side also needs reserve+throttling but it is easier
because we flag packets at allocation time for special handling.
Regards,
Daniel
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