[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S21 06/14] i40evf: don't use atomic allocation

Joshua Hay joshua.a.hay at intel.com
Fri Nov 6 23:26:04 UTC 2015


From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>

These allocations don't need to be at atomic level. GFP_KERNEL is fine
and they'll reduce stress on the allocator when the system is starved
for memory.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
Change-ID: I3561d0399a681de0ad25291b6c848b224c1fde12
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_virtchnl.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_virtchnl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_virtchnl.c
index 9b55576..3c9c008 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_virtchnl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_virtchnl.c
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ void i40evf_configure_queues(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 	adapter->current_op = I40E_VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES;
 	len = sizeof(struct i40e_virtchnl_vsi_queue_config_info) +
 		       (sizeof(struct i40e_virtchnl_queue_pair_info) * pairs);
-	vqci = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	vqci = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vqci)
 		return;
 
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ void i40evf_map_queues(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 	len = sizeof(struct i40e_virtchnl_irq_map_info) +
 	      (adapter->num_msix_vectors *
 		sizeof(struct i40e_virtchnl_vector_map));
-	vimi = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	vimi = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vimi)
 		return;
 
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ void i40evf_add_ether_addrs(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 		more = true;
 	}
 
-	veal = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	veal = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!veal)
 		return;
 
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ void i40evf_del_ether_addrs(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 		      (count * sizeof(struct i40e_virtchnl_ether_addr));
 		more = true;
 	}
-	veal = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	veal = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!veal)
 		return;
 
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ void i40evf_add_vlans(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 		      (count * sizeof(u16));
 		more = true;
 	}
-	vvfl = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	vvfl = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vvfl)
 		return;
 
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ void i40evf_del_vlans(struct i40evf_adapter *adapter)
 		      (count * sizeof(u16));
 		more = true;
 	}
-	vvfl = kzalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	vvfl = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vvfl)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.1.0



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