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>,
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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
next prev 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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