From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>,
Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: Use kvmalloc() for ucode allocations
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:11:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920121155.6B8EF60B73@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180913061517.26295-1-tiwai@suse.de>
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> The ucode chunk might be relatively large and the allocation with
> kmalloc() may fail occasionally. Since the data isn't DMA-transferred
> but by manual loops, we can use vmalloc instead of kmalloc.
> For a better performance, though, kvmalloc() would be the best choice
> in such a case, so let's replace with it.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103431
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
6c3efbe77bc7 brcmsmac: Use kvmalloc() for ucode allocations
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10598731/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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2018-09-13 6:15 [PATCH] brcmsmac: Use kvmalloc() for ucode allocations Takashi Iwai
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