netdev - [patch 1/1] sfc: modify allocation error message

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:03:10 -0800
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, travis@....com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: [patch 1/1] sfc: modify allocation error message

From: Mike Travis <travis@....com>

Change error message when alloc_cpumask_var fails.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/net/sfc/efx.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/sfc/efx.c~sfc-modify-allocation-error-message drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c~sfc-modify-allocation-error-message
+++ a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
@@ -857,9 +857,9 @@ static int efx_wanted_rx_queues(void)
 	int count;
 	int cpu;
 
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+	if (unlikely(!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL))) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING
-		       "efx.c: allocation failure, irq balancing hobbled\n");
+		       "sfc: RSS disabled due to allocation failure\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
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