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Revision ec25bc04ed8e12947738468cbe2191f1529f9e39 authored by Eugenia Emantayev on 18 July 2016, 15:35:12 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 19 July 2016, 23:44:11 UTC
This patch fixes the lost of Ethernet port on low memory system,
when driver frees its resources and fails to allocate new resources.
Issue could happen while changing number of channels, rings size or
changing the timestamp configuration.
This fix is necessary because of removing vmap use in the code.
When vmap was in use driver could allocate non-contiguous memory
and make it contiguous with vmap. Now it could fail to allocate
a large chunk of contiguous memory and lose the port.
Current code tries to allocate new resources and then upon success
frees the old resources.

Fixes: 73898db04301 ('net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: ec25bc04ed8e12947738468cbe2191f1529f9e39 authored by Eugenia Emantayev on 18 July 2016, 15:35:12 UTC
net/mlx4_en: Add resilience in low memory systems
Tip revision: ec25bc0
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