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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allow large number of tx queues
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:15:51 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> netif_alloc_netdev_queues() uses kcalloc() to allocate memory
> for the "struct netdev_queue *_tx" array.
> 
> For large number of tx queues, kcalloc() might fail, so this
> patch does a fallback to vzalloc().
> 
> As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
> to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.