From: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com, santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 08/20] ibmveth: Dont overallocate buffers
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:49:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100823204916.GB15499@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823001239.041525926@samba.org>
* Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org) wrote:
> We were allocating a page, even though we always want 4k. Use kmalloc
> instead of get_zeroed_page.
I get a failure during device open when we have a 4k allocation rather
than a 64k page allocation. This is running on a Power6 LPAR without
AMS.
(drivers/net/ibmveth.c:621 ua:3000000c) ERROR: h_register_logical_lan failed with -4
(drivers/net/ibmveth.c:626 ua:3000000c) ERROR: buffer TCE:0x300 filter TCE:0x2300 rxq desc:0x8000601000004000 MAC:0x763cbdd9d30c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 0:09 [patch 00/20] ibmveth update Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 01/20] ibmveth: Remove integer divide caused by modulus Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 02/20] ibmveth: batch rx buffer replacement Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 03/20] ibmveth: Remove LLTX Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 04/20] ibmveth: Add tx_copybreak Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 05/20] ibmveth: Add rx_copybreak Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 06/20] ibmveth: Use lighter weight read memory barrier in ibmveth_poll Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 07/20] ibmveth: Add scatter-gather support Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 08/20] ibmveth: Dont overallocate buffers Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 20:49 ` Robert Jennings [this message]
2010-08-25 13:44 ` Brian King
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 09/20] ibmveth: Add optional flush of rx buffer Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 10/20] ibmveth: remove procfs code Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 11/20] ibmveth: Convert to netdev_alloc_skb Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 12/20] ibmveth: Remove redundant function prototypes Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 13/20] ibmveth: Convert driver specific debug to netdev_dbg Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 14/20] ibmveth: Convert driver specific error functions to netdev_err Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 15/20] ibmveth: Some formatting fixes Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 16/20] ibmveth: Coding style fixes Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 17/20] ibmveth: Return -EINVAL on all ->probe errors Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 18/20] ibmveth: Convert driver specific assert to BUG_ON Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 19/20] ibmveth: Remove some unnecessary include files Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 0:09 ` [patch 20/20] ibmveth: Update module information and version Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 1:57 ` [patch 00/20] ibmveth update David Miller
2010-08-23 2:07 ` Anton Blanchard
2010-08-23 2:15 ` David Miller
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