netdev - Re: [PATCH 17/22] net: marvell: prestera: Don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_pool

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Message-ID: <20220218205408.45d1085e@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:54:08 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/22] net: marvell: prestera: Don't use GFP_DMA when
 calling dma_pool_alloc()

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:52:16 +0800 Baoquan He wrote:
> dma_pool_alloc() uses dma_alloc_coherent() to pre-allocate DMA buffer,
> so it's redundent to specify GFP_DMA when calling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

This and the other two netdev patches in the series are perfectly
cleanups reasonable even outside of the larger context.

Please repost those separately and make sure you CC the maintainers
of the drivers.