[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v2] IB/ipoib: use vmap with allocation of tx ring

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Tue Feb 19 01:05:22 PST 2008


Roland Dreier wrote:
> No, I don't think we need to worry about using up vmalloc() space
> really.  I don't think anyone is going to consume more than a few MB
> of ring buffers with IPoIB, and if they do then it's almost certainly
> going to be on a 64-bit system.

So the patch you want to see is to make ipoib use vmalloc in those 1-3 
places which are subject to kmalloc failure?

Or





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