Trond Myklebust writes:
> IMHO allocating the buffer using GFP_ATOMIC is a mistake. As I said
> we're in a thread context, so sleeping in GFP_KERNEL is safe. In
> addition, the cost of dropping the request if we can't allocate the
> buffer is heavy in that the client has to wait for a timeo
Hi,
The zero-copy TCP patch that was integrated in 2.4.4 has allowed us
to move the task of reassembling of the fragments into one buffer
until we're out of the ->data_ready() bottom half context.
In 2.4.4 therefore, the nfsd thread can end up calling the function
skb_linearize(), in order t
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