Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/22] net: marvell: prestera: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_pool_alloc()

From: Baoquan He <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 10:06:01 +0800

On 02/18/22 at 08:54pm, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:52:16 +0800 Baoquan He wrote:
> > dma_pool_alloc() uses dma_alloc_coherent() to pre-allocate DMA buffer,
> > so it's redundent to specify GFP_DMA when calling.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email-masked]>
> 
> This and the other two netdev patches in the series are perfectly
> cleanups reasonable even outside of the larger context.
> 
> Please repost those separately and make sure you CC the maintainers
> of the drivers.

Thanks for reviewing. I am not familiar with netdev and network patch
posting rule. There are 4 patches altogether related to netdev as below,
Will repost them to the relevant netdev mailinglist and maintainers.

[PATCH 19/22] ethernet: rocker: Use dma_alloc_noncoherent() for dma buffer
[PATCH 18/22] net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dmam_alloc_coherent()
[PATCH 17/22] net: marvell: prestera: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_pool_alloc()
[PATCH 02/22] net: moxa: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_alloc_coherent()