From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: avoid atomic allocations during initialization
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:20:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522DBCF3.50709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504C9EFCA2D0054393414C9CB605C37F20D90E3D@SJEXCHMB06.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
On 09/07/2013 03:45 AM, Dmitry Kravkov wrote:
> Once you allocated the memory during initialization , you will most
> probably fail to allocate its replacement during RX handling (on this
> machine).
Why do you think this would happen "most probably"? I would instead
expect the VM subsystem to respond to the memory pressure created by the
initial GFP_KERNEL allocations by freeing some memory to allow the
future atomic allocations to succeed.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-09 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 20:13 [PATCH] bnx2x: avoid atomic allocations during initialization Michal Schmidt
2013-09-06 18:27 ` David Miller
2013-09-07 1:45 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2013-09-07 4:29 ` David Miller
2013-09-07 9:07 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2013-09-08 1:48 ` David Miller
2013-09-09 12:20 ` Michal Schmidt [this message]
2013-09-11 19:44 ` David Miller
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