Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: allow large number of rx queues

[Cong Wang]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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