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From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo•fr>
Cc: <mark.einon@gmail•com>, <davem@davemloft•net>,
	<willy@infradead•org>, <f.fainelli@gmail•com>, <andrew@lunn•ch>,
	<netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	<kernel-janitors@vger•kernel.org>,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 22:23:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190807222346.00002ba7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190731073842.16948-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo•fr> wrote:

> There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
> are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
> 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')
> 
> Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo•fr>

Sure, but generally I'd say GFP_ATOMIC is ok if you're in an init path
and you can afford to have the allocation thread sleep while memory is
being found by the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-08  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-31  7:38 [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring Christophe JAILLET
2019-07-31 15:36 ` David Miller
2019-08-08  5:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg [this message]
2019-08-08 11:24   ` Matthew Wilcox

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