Re: [PATCH] e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5memory allocation failure

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Nov 29 2009 - 20:17:55 EST


From: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:49:54 +0200

> e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation failure.
>
> pci_alloc_consistent uses GFP_ATOMIC allocation that may fail on some systems
> with limited memory (Bug #14265). pci_pool_alloc allows waiting with
> GFP_KERNEL.
>
> Tested-by: Karol Lewandowski <karol.k.lewandowski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Oksanen <roger.oksanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good, thanks.

Applied to net-2.6 and queued up for -stable
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