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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: support __GFP_MEMALLOC for rx
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:36:34 -0500 (EST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:14:10 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Commit 04aeb56a1732 ("net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX
> ring with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC") added code that appears to be not needed at
> that time, since mlx4 never used __GFP_MEMALLOC allocations anyway.
> 
> As using memory reserves is a must in some situations (swap over NFS or
> iSCSI), this patch adds this flag.
> 
> Note that this driver does not reuse pages (yet) so we do not have to
> add anything else.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.