Re: [PATCH] Improve Atheros ethernet driver not to do order 4 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Sun Nov 29 2015 - 16:58:12 EST


Hello.

On 11/28/2015 5:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

atl1c driver is doing order-4 allocation with GFP_ATOMIC
priority. That often breaks networking after resume. Switch to
GFP_KERNEL. Still not ideal, but should be significantly better.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
index 2795d6d..afb71e0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
@@ -1016,10 +1016,10 @@ static int atl1c_setup_ring_resources(struct atl1c_adapter *adapter)
sizeof(struct atl1c_recv_ret_status) * rx_desc_count +
8 * 4;

- ring_header->desc = pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, ring_header->size,
- &ring_header->dma);
+ ring_header->desc = dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, ring_header->size,
+ &ring_header->dma, GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!ring_header->desc)) {
- dev_err(&pdev->dev, "pci_alloc_consistend failed\n");
+ dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get memmory for DMA buffer\n");

s/memmory/memory/.

[...]

MBR, Sergei

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/