[openib-general] [PATCH] mthca: save low memory used for reserved objects

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

>  > We never need to allocate memory for reserved objects in low memory.
> 
> True, but...
> 
>  >  		table->icm[i] = mthca_alloc_icm(dev, chunk_size >> PAGE_SHIFT,
>  > -						(use_lowmem ? GFP_KERNEL : GFP_HIGHUSER) |
>  > -						__GFP_NOWARN);
>  > +						 GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_NOWARN);
> 
> ...it's quite not so simple, is it?  the chunk being allocated here
> might not contain exclusively reserved objects -- it might have some
> real objects too.

Correct. Missed this.

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