Re: [PATCH] ib/mlx4: adjust gfp flags for DMA allocations

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:51:13PM +0300, Jan Dakinevich wrote:
> For most cases it is enough to use common GFP_KERNEL flag. However,
> there is one place with defined fallback path on unsuccessful allocation.
> In this case it would be preferred to append on first allocation attempt
> __GFP_NOWARN and __GFP_NORETRY flags to suppress possible warnings and
> to shorten the path to the fallback in a case of memory pressure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c            |  2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c            |  6 ++++--
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/srq.c           |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/alloc.c | 12 ++++++------
>  include/linux/mlx4/device.h                |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>

Thanks for the patch, however we are working on the patch to avoid
second call to mlx4_buf_alloc() and it will eliminate the annoying
WARN splat.

Because it is in latest stages of internal review, NAK.

Thanks

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