From: Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:02:17 +0200
> This patch splits the vlan_group struct into a multi-allocated struct. On > x86_64, the size of the original struct is a little more than 32KB, causing > a 4-order allocation, which is prune to problems caused by buddy-system > external fragmentation conditions. > > I couldn't just use vmalloc() because vfree() cannot be called in the > softirq context of the RCU callback. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No objections, this really needs to be fixed, applied. Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html