netdev - Re: [PATCH V7 net-next 1/7] xen-netback: Move grant_copy

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:50:04 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	"Andrew J. Bennieston" <andrew.bennieston@...rix.com>
CC:	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>, <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	<paul.durrant@...rix.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 net-next 1/7] xen-netback: Move grant_copy_op array
 back into struct xenvif.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:27:09PM +0100, Andrew J. Bennieston wrote:
> From: "Andrew J. Bennieston" <andrew.bennieston@...rix.com>
> 
> This array was allocated separately in commit ac3d5ac2 due to it being
> very large, and a struct xenvif is allocated as the netdev_priv part of
> a struct net_device, i.e. via kmalloc() but falling back to vmalloc() if
> the initial alloc. fails.
> 
> In preparation for the multi-queue patches, where this array becomes
> part of struct xenvif_queue and is always allocated through vzalloc(),
> move this back into the struct xenvif.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@...rix.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>

Minor nit: should include the actual title of ac3d5ac2 in the commit log
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