netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2: bnx2_alloc_rx_mem() should use kmalloc() for small allocations

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Message-Id: <20081112.224927.250241354.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:49:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	mchan@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcarlson@...adcom.com,
	benli@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2: bnx2_alloc_rx_mem() should use kmalloc() for
 small allocations

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:49:14 +0100

> Any chance bnx2_alloc_rx_mem doesnt use vmalloc() to allocate less
> than a page of memory ?
>
> [PATCH] bnx2: bnx2_alloc_rx_mem() should use kmalloc() for small allocations

Eric, I've seen (and used) this idiom enough times that I think
it deserves a generic construct somewhere instead of replicating
this sequence over and over again.

Don't you agree? :-)
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