Re: [PATCH] sfc: modify allocation error message

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 07:13:24 EST


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 07:04 -0800, Mike Travis wrote:
[...]
> Subject: sfc: modify allocation error message
>
> Impact: change error message when alloc_cpumask_var fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ï--
> drivers/net/sfc/efx.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
> +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
> @@ -858,9 +858,9 @@ static int efx_wanted_rx_queues(void)
> int count;
> int cpu;
>
> - if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> + if (unlikely(!alloc_cpumask_var(&core_mask, GFP_KERNEL))) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING
> - "efx.c: allocation failure, irq balancing hobbled\n");
> + "sfc: RSS disabled due to allocation failure\n");
> return 1;
> }
>

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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