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iwlwifi: reduce noise when skb allocation fails 

Replenishment of receive buffers is done in the tasklet handling
received frames as well as in a workqueue. When we are in the tasklet
we cannot sleep and thus attempt atomic skb allocations. It is generally
not a big problem if this fails since iwl_rx_allocate is always followed
by a call to iwl_rx_queue_restock which will queue the work to replenish
the buffers at a time when sleeping is allowed.

We thus add the __GFP_NOWARN to the skb allocation in iwl_rx_allocate to
reduce the noise if such an allocation fails while we still have enough
buffers. We do maintain the warning and the error message when we are low
on buffers to communicate to the user that there is a potential problem with
memory availability on system

This addresses issue reported upstream in thread "iwlagn: order 2 page
allocation failures" in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/39187

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Reinette Chatre 2009-09-17 10:43:56 -07:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent bba98871c6
commit f82a924cc8
2 changed files with 17 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c
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@ -250,12 +250,20 @@ void iwl_rx_allocate(struct iwl_priv *priv, gfp_t priority)
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
if (rxq->free_count > RX_LOW_WATERMARK)
priority |= __GFP_NOWARN;
/* Alloc a new receive buffer */
skb = alloc_skb(priv->hw_params.rx_buf_size + 256,
priority);
if (!skb) {
IWL_CRIT(priv, "Can not allocate SKB buffers\n");
if (net_ratelimit())
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "Failed to allocate SKB buffer.\n");
if ((rxq->free_count <= RX_LOW_WATERMARK) &&
net_ratelimit())
IWL_CRIT(priv, "Failed to allocate SKB buffer with %s. Only %u free buffers remaining.\n",
priority == GFP_ATOMIC ? "GFP_ATOMIC" : "GFP_KERNEL",
rxq->free_count);
/* We don't reschedule replenish work here -- we will
* call the restock method and if it still needs
* more buffers it will schedule replenish */

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drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
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@ -1146,11 +1146,18 @@ static void iwl3945_rx_allocate(struct iwl_priv *priv, gfp_t priority)
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rxq->lock, flags);
if (rxq->free_count > RX_LOW_WATERMARK)
priority |= __GFP_NOWARN;
/* Alloc a new receive buffer */
skb = alloc_skb(priv->hw_params.rx_buf_size, priority);
if (!skb) {
if (net_ratelimit())
IWL_CRIT(priv, ": Can not allocate SKB buffers\n");
IWL_DEBUG_INFO(priv, "Failed to allocate SKB buffer.\n");
if ((rxq->free_count <= RX_LOW_WATERMARK) &&
net_ratelimit())
IWL_CRIT(priv, "Failed to allocate SKB buffer with %s. Only %u free buffers remaining.\n",
priority == GFP_ATOMIC ? "GFP_ATOMIC" : "GFP_KERNEL",
rxq->free_count);
/* We don't reschedule replenish work here -- we will
* call the restock method and if it still needs
* more buffers it will schedule replenish */