From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] IB/mlx5: use kvmalloc_array for mlx5_ib_wq Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:48:54 -0400 Message-ID: <1503434934.78641.15.camel@redhat.com> References: <20170816133123.20497-1-dongyang.li@anu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170816133123.20497-1-dongyang.li-FCV4sgi5zeUQrrorzV6ljw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Li Dongyang , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 23:31 +1000, Li Dongyang wrote: > We observed multiple times on our Lustre OSS servers that when > the system memory is fragmented, kmalloc() in create_kernel_qp() > could fail order 4/5 allocations while we still have many free pages. > > Switch to kvmalloc_array() to allow the operation to contine. > > Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang Thanks, applied. -- Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html