Please pull from 'for_linus' branch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 20 13:55:47 EST 2007


Linus,

Please pull from 'for_linus' branch at

	master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc.git for_linus

To get a fix for 2.6.22 to the rheap allocator that was causing multiple
instances of the UCC ethernet driver to fail because it was running out of
memory due to wasting space for aligned requests.

Thanks,
Kumar.

 arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

commit 7c8545e98468c53809fc06788a3b9a34dff05240
Author: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 18 19:29:21 2007 +0800

    [POWERPC] rheap - eliminates internal fragments caused by alignment

    The patch adds fragments caused by rh_alloc_align() back to free list, instead
    of allocating the whole chunk of memory.  This will greatly improve memory
    utilization managed by rheap.

    It solves MURAM not enough problem with 3 UCCs enabled on MPC8323.

    Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
    Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se>
    Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>



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