Re: [PATCH] net: dccp: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in dccp_init

[Jia-Ju Bai]

On 2018/4/9 22:42, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On 04/09/2018 07:10 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> > dccp_init() is never called in atomic context.
> > This function is only set as a parameter of module_init().
> >
> > Despite never getting called from atomic context,
> > dccp_init() calls __get_free_pages() with GFP_ATOMIC,
> > which waits busily for allocation.
> What do you mean by "waits busily" ?
>
> GFP_ATOMIC does not sleep, does not wait.

Sorry, I should modify it to "does not sleep".
Do you think it is okay?


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai