From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: roger.oksanen@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
bruce.w.allan@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
john.ronciak@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karol.k.lewandowski@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:17:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091129.171749.113308677.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911261649.54785.roger.oksanen@cs.helsinki.fi>
From: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:49:54 +0200
> e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure.
>
> pci_alloc_consistent uses GFP_ATOMIC allocation that may fail on some systems
> with limited memory (Bug #14265). pci_pool_alloc allows waiting with
> GFP_KERNEL.
>
> Tested-by: Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@cs.helsinki.fi>
Looks good, thanks.
Applied to net-2.6 and queued up for -stable
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2009-11-26 14:49 [PATCH] e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure Roger Oksanen
2009-11-30 1:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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