[PATCH 6/6] net: thunderx: Alloc higher order pages when pagesize is small
sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com
sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 04:07:52 PST 2016
From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>
Allocate higher order pages when pagesize is small, this will
reduce number of calls to page allocator and wastage of memory.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
index 50ab6f4..5adb208 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static void nicvf_free_q_desc_mem(struct nicvf *nic, struct q_desc_mem *dmem)
static inline int nicvf_alloc_rcv_buffer(struct nicvf *nic, gfp_t gfp,
u32 buf_len, u64 **rbuf)
{
- int order = get_order(buf_len);
+ int order = (PAGE_SIZE <= 4096) ? PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER : 0;
/* Check if request can be accomodated in previous allocated page */
if (nic->rb_page) {
--
1.7.1
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