The skge driver was using dev_alloc_skb which reserves space for the
Ethernet header. This unnecessary and it should just use alloc_skb,
also by using GFP_KERNEL during startup it won't run into problems when
a user asks for a huge ring size or mtu and potentially drains the
reserved atomic pool.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- skge-2.6.orig/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ skge-2.6/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ static int skge_rx_fill(struct skge_port
do {
struct sk_buff *skb;
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
+ skb = alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2592,7 +2592,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skge_rx_ge
goto error;
if (len < RX_COPY_THRESHOLD) {
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(len + 2);
+ skb = alloc_skb(len + 2, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
goto resubmit;
@@ -2607,7 +2607,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skge_rx_ge
skge_rx_reuse(e, skge->rx_buf_size);
} else {
struct sk_buff *nskb;
- nskb = dev_alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
+ nskb = alloc_skb(skge->rx_buf_size + NET_IP_ALIGN, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!nskb)
goto resubmit;
--
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