Re: [PATCH net] net: atlantic: keep rings across suspend/resume

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 03:39:24AM +0100, Lorenz Brun wrote:
> The rings are order-6 allocations which tend to fail on suspend due to
> fragmentation. As memory is kept during suspend/resume, we don't need to
> reallocate them.

I don't know this driver. Are there other reasons to reallocate the
rings? Change of MTU? ethtool settings? If they are also potentially
going to run into memory fragmentation issues, maybe it would be
better to use smaller order allocations, or vmalloc, if the hardware
supports that, etc.

	Andrew