netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Move sub crq init out of interrupt context

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Message-Id: <20170426.144931.2181011396838839496.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Move sub crq init out of interrupt context

From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:00:58 -0400

> The sub crqs are currently intialized in interrupt context when
> handling a crq response fromn the vios server. There is no reason
> they must be initialized there.
> 
> Moving the initialization of the sub crqs to the ibmvnic_init routine
> allows us to do the initialization outside of interrupt context and
> make all of the allocations with GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC.

Series applied, thanks.