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Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> fq_init() in mac80211 allocates something like 1/2 MB of memory in a
> kmalloc() call and I see it failing frequently in our automation now ...
> Could we move that to vmalloc()?

Sure, don't see why not. The qdisc allocators all use kvmalloc() for the
same purpose, so I guess we can just switch fq_init() to that as well.
I'll send a (one-character :)) patch...

-Toke





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