[PATCH net-next 11/12] ibmvnic: Use netdev_alloc_skb instead of alloc_skb to replenish RX buffers

Thomas Falcon tlfalcon at linux.ibm.com
Fri Nov 13 06:10:06 AEDT 2020


From: "Dwip N. Banerjee" <dnbanerg at us.ibm.com>

Take advantage of the additional optimizations in netdev_alloc_skb when
allocating socket buffers to be used for packet reception.

Signed-off-by: Dwip N. Banerjee <dnbanerg at us.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index e48a44d8884c..0791dbf1cba8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void replenish_rx_pool(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
 	rx_scrq = adapter->rx_scrq[pool->index];
 	ind_bufp = &rx_scrq->ind_buf;
 	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
-		skb = alloc_skb(pool->buff_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, pool->buff_size);
 		if (!skb) {
 			dev_err(dev, "Couldn't replenish rx buff\n");
 			adapter->replenish_no_mem++;
-- 
2.26.2



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