From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] cxgb4: reduce memory footprint for collecting firmware dump Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:56:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20180119.145649.2010737295961222050.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, nirranjan@chelsio.com, indranil@chelsio.com To: rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:46258 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756130AbeAST4v (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:56:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Rahul Lakkireddy Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:53:45 +0530 > Firmware dump can be large (upto 2 GB). In low memory conditions, > ethtool fails to allocate such large memory. So, use zlib deflate > to compress collected firmware dump. > > Patch 1 updates collection logic to use compression. > > Patch 2 adds zlib deflate to compress collected firmware dump. Series applied, thanks Rahul.