From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: fenkes@de.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OF-EWG <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
raisch@de.ibm.com, alexschm@de.ibm.com,
stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:34:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaws9dvrkp.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904211716.45245.ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Stefan Roscher's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:16:44 +0200")
> + queue->queue_pages = kmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
How big might this buffer be? Any chance of allocation failure due to
memory fragmentation?
- R.
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Stefan Roscher <ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "LinuxPPC-Dev" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"OF-EWG" <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
fenkes@de.ibm.com, raisch@de.ibm.com, alexschm@de.ibm.com,
stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com, hnguyen@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:34:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaws9dvrkp.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904211716.45245.ossrosch@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Stefan Roscher's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:16:44 +0200")
> + queue->queue_pages = kmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
How big might this buffer be? Any chance of allocation failure due to
memory fragmentation?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 15:16 [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc Stefan Roscher
2009-04-21 15:16 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-21 17:34 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-04-21 17:34 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-22 9:11 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 14:10 ` michael
2009-04-22 16:00 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-22 16:12 ` michael
2009-04-28 13:07 ` [ewg] " Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 14:01 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 14:01 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 14:13 ` Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 14:13 ` Alexander Schmidt
2009-04-28 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-28 15:12 ` Dave Hansen
2009-04-28 16:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-28 16:02 ` Stefan Roscher
2009-04-28 16:45 ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-28 16:45 ` Roland Dreier
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