netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 4/5] fm10k/igb/ixgbe: Replace __skb_alloc_page with netdev_alloc

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Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:32:32 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	leedom@...lsio.com, hariprasad@...lsio.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, oliver@...kum.org, balbi@...com,
	matthew.vick@...el.com, mgorman@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 4/5] fm10k/igb/ixgbe: Replace __skb_alloc_page
 with netdev_alloc_page

On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 11:52 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The Intel drivers were pretty much just using the plain vanilla GFP
> flags
> in their calls to __skb_alloc_page so this change makes it so that
> they use
> netdev_alloc_page which just uses GFP_ATOMIC for the gfp_flags value.
> 
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Cc: Matthew Vick <matthew.vick@...el.com>
> Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c     |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    3 +--
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I know that this patch is dependent upon the changes in patch 01 of the
series, so I do not want to necessarily break up the series by having
Dave wait for us to test and ACK this patch internally.  But I will add
your patch to my queue so that I can get what testing I can on these
changes.

FWIW...
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

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