Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Add VLAN support

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 06/10/2016 05:00 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> @@ -148,6 +155,9 @@ struct bcm_sf2_priv {
>>  	struct device_node		*master_mii_dn;
>>  	struct mii_bus			*slave_mii_bus;
>>  	struct mii_bus			*master_mii_bus;
>> +
>> +	/* Cache of programmed VLANs */
>> +	struct bcm_sf2_vlan		vlans[VLAN_N_VID];
> 
> Hi Florian
> 
> This is a 16Kbyte array. So i assume the whole priv structure needs 5
> pages. Have you had any trouble allocating this much memory,
> particularly once it has been used for a while and fragmented?

Well, since this is using the old binding, we can't unload the driver,
it's built into the kernel, so initializes early enough we have got
plenty of memory.

> 
> I just wondered if it might be better to use vmalloc() for the
> vlans.

That's a very good point, I can't really see a drawback to doing this,
will submit a patch moving this to a dynamic allocation.

Another possible approach would have been to allocate the vlan structure
upong port_vlan_prepare() though that would typically result in more
fragmentation over time once se start using more VLANs.
-- 
Florian