netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx4_en: try to use high order pages for RX rings

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Date:   Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:37:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tariqt@...lanox.com, echun@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx4_en: try to use high order pages for
 RX rings

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:12:53 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> RX rings can fit most of the time in a contiguous piece of memory,
> so lets use kvzalloc_node/kvfree instead of vzalloc_node/vfree
> 
> Note that kvzalloc_node() automatically falls back to another node,
> there is no need to do the fallback ourselves.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.