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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
	Ian Molton <ian.molton@codethink.co.uk>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
	Maen Suleiman <maen@marvell.com>,
	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik@marvell.com>,
	Shadi Ammouri <shadi@marvell.com>,
	"Eran Ben-Avi" <benavi@marvell.com>,
	Yehuda Yitschak <yehuday@marvell.com>,
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	Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof@canonical.com>,
	Dan Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
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	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: increase atomic coherent pool size for armada 370/XP
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:27:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210251127.36960.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351086561-13569-2-git-send-email-gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>

On Wednesday 24 October 2012, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> For Armada 370/XP we have the same problem that for the commit
> cb01b63, so we applied the same solution: "The default 256 KiB
> coherent pool may be too small for some of the Kirkwood devices, so
> increase it to make sure that devices will be able to allocate their
> buffers with GFP_ATOMIC flag"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>

Do you know why the ATA driver needs this? I find it surprising that
it's necessary, so I'd like to make sure we're not just working around
a device driver bug here.

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 13:49 [PATCH 0/2] Adding SATA support for Armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-24 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: increase atomic coherent pool size for armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25  5:29   ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-10-25 11:27   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-10-25 11:43     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-25 13:46       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-25 14:09         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-24 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm: mvebu: adding SATA support: dt binding and config update Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-24 14:01   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-24 14:05     ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:18       ` Jason Cooper
2012-10-25 13:21         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-25 13:34           ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:57             ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 16:00               ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:35           ` Jason Cooper
2012-10-25 13:53         ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 14:11           ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 14:27             ` Rob Herring
2012-10-24 14:08   ` Andrew Lunn
2012-10-24 14:45     ` Gregory CLEMENT

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