netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX ring with __GFP

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Message-Id: <20160419.200704.829287730580225238.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:07:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yishaih@...lanox.com, eugenia@...lanox.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_en: allocate non 0-order pages for RX ring
 with __GFP_NOMEMALLOC

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:33:54 +0300

> High order pages are optional here since commit 51151a16a60f ("mlx4: allow
> order-0 memory allocations in RX path"), so here is no reason for depleting
> reserves. Generic __netdev_alloc_frag() implements the same logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>

Applied.