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Message-ID: <565B74EB.3000005@cogentembedded.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:58:03 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	davem@...emloft.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jcliburn@...il.com,
	chris.snook@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	nic-devel@...lcomm.com, ronangeles@...il.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve Atheros ethernet driver not to do order 4
 GFP_ATOMIC allocation

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@....cz>
>
> 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

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