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

Bowers, AndrewX andrewx.bowers at intel.com
Mon Nov 9 19:05:07 UTC 2015


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at lists.osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Hay
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 3:26 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S21 06/14] i40evf: don't use atomic
> allocation
> 
> 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(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>
Patch code changes correctly applied


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