netdev - Re: [PATCH] e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure

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Message-Id: <20091129.171749.113308677.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:17:49 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roger.oksanen@...helsinki.fi
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	bruce.w.allan@...el.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com,
	john.ronciak@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5
 memory allocation failure

From: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@...helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:49:54 +0200

> e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure.
> 
> pci_alloc_consistent uses GFP_ATOMIC allocation that may fail on some systems
> with limited memory (Bug #14265). pci_pool_alloc allows waiting with
> GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> Tested-by: Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@...helsinki.fi>

Looks good, thanks.

Applied to net-2.6 and queued up for -stable
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