On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Probably. it would be safe to use vmalloc for allocating txb anyway. >> > I'll give it a try. >> >> So vmalloc didn't break anything on the 32bit machine I'm just about >> to install 64 one so it will take hour or two.. I will issue some >> official patch after that. > > Well, I disagree, and I'll push my patch as soon as somebody confirms > that it doesn't break anything. Remember you are not a maintainer of this driver and second we are open to all suggestions you don't have to use this kind of statements... > >> > There was already discussion on LKML about memory allocation problems >> > on X86_64, which might explain this regression. This didn't happen >> > before. >> >> This is the thread title if you are interested. >> 'x86/kernel/pci_dma.c: gfp |= __GFP_NORETRY' > > Like I said, it doesn't matter, there's no need to _waste_ > 18*256*sizeof(void *) bytes memory. It does matter this is not pci allocation we are saving in your patch. > johannes > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
