Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: et131x: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC when allocating tx_ring->tcb_ring

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200
Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations
> are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and
> 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()')
> 
> Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sure, but generally I'd say GFP_ATOMIC is ok if you're in an init path
and you can afford to have the allocation thread sleep while memory is
being found by the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>



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