From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sep/22/2019, 23:31:32 (UTC+00:00)
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:01:27 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The size of individual pages in the page pool in given by an order. The
> > order is the binary logarithm of the number of pages that make up one of
> > the pages in the pool. However, the driver currently passes the number
> > of pages rather than the order, so it ends up wasting quite a bit of
> > memory.
> >
> > Fix this by taking the binary logarithm and passing that in the order
> > field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since this is a fix could we get a Fixes tag pointing to the commit
> which introduced the regression?
This would be:
2af6106ae949 ("net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool")
Can you please resubmit Thierry ?
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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu
