From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org,
rfried@codeaurora.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Subject: Re: wcn36xx: allocate skbs with GFP_KERNEL during init
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:00:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410150001.D691660274@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180319063002.24665-1-daniel@zonque.org>
Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> wrote:
> GFP_ATOMIC should only be used when the allocation is done from atomic
> context. Introduce a new flag to wcn36xx_dxe_fill_skb() and use GFP_KERNEL
> when pre-allocating buffers during init.
>
> This doesn't fix an issue that was observed in the wild, but it reduces
> the chance of failed allocations under memory pressure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.
5151a673da43 wcn36xx: allocate skbs with GFP_KERNEL during init
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10291685/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-19 6:30 [PATCH] wcn36xx: allocate skbs with GFP_KERNEL during init Daniel Mack
2018-03-29 18:04 ` Daniel Mack
2018-04-03 9:58 ` Kalle Valo
2018-04-10 15:00 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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