Re: [PATCH 2/4 net-next] tg3: provide frags as skb head

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 18:42 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > page_address() may return NULL if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is enabled.  And that's
> > going to be a general problem with this scheme on 32-bit machines.
> 
> kmalloc(2048, GFP_ATOMIC) and alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC) uses the same pool
> of LOWMEM pages, so there is no difference here. page_address() is
> guaranteed to work.

Oh, of course, GFP_HIGH is not GFP_HIGHMEM...

Ben.

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