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authorZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>2010-03-08 13:18:03 +0800
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-03-10 16:16:55 -0500
commit8e59340e4fb65cfd748eaa1e23db057c52520f35 (patch)
treed302d7fc27edf87c78e50ee24608554240d99dec /drivers/net/wireless
parent38a679a52be13d5a0c766597ab823e06688d6e8e (diff)
libipw: split ieee->networks into small pieces
The ieee->networks consists of 128 struct libipw_network entries. If we allocate this chunk of memory altogether, it ends up with an order 4 page allocation. High order page allocation is likely to fail on system high load. This patch splits the big chunk memory allocation into small pieces, each is 344 bytes, allocates them with 128 times. The patch fixed bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14989 Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_module.c37
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h
index bf45391172f..a6d5e42647e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ struct libipw_device {
/* Probe / Beacon management */
struct list_head network_free_list;
struct list_head network_list;
- struct libipw_network *networks;
+ struct libipw_network *networks[MAX_NETWORK_COUNT];
int scans;
int scan_age;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_module.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_module.c
index 1ae0b2b02c3..2fa55867bd8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_module.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_module.c
@@ -67,16 +67,17 @@ void *libipw_wiphy_privid = &libipw_wiphy_privid;
static int libipw_networks_allocate(struct libipw_device *ieee)
{
- if (ieee->networks)
- return 0;
-
- ieee->networks =
- kzalloc(MAX_NETWORK_COUNT * sizeof(struct libipw_network),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ieee->networks) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Out of memory allocating beacons\n",
- ieee->dev->name);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ int i, j;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < MAX_NETWORK_COUNT; i++) {
+ ieee->networks[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct libipw_network),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ieee->networks[i]) {
+ LIBIPW_ERROR("Out of memory allocating beacons\n");
+ for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
+ kfree(ieee->networks[j]);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
}
return 0;
@@ -97,15 +98,11 @@ static inline void libipw_networks_free(struct libipw_device *ieee)
{
int i;
- if (!ieee->networks)
- return;
-
- for (i = 0; i < MAX_NETWORK_COUNT; i++)
- if (ieee->networks[i].ibss_dfs)
- kfree(ieee->networks[i].ibss_dfs);
-
- kfree(ieee->networks);
- ieee->networks = NULL;
+ for (i = 0; i < MAX_NETWORK_COUNT; i++) {
+ if (ieee->networks[i]->ibss_dfs)
+ kfree(ieee->networks[i]->ibss_dfs);
+ kfree(ieee->networks[i]);
+ }
}
void libipw_networks_age(struct libipw_device *ieee,
@@ -130,7 +127,7 @@ static void libipw_networks_initialize(struct libipw_device *ieee)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ieee->network_free_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ieee->network_list);
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NETWORK_COUNT; i++)
- list_add_tail(&ieee->networks[i].list,
+ list_add_tail(&ieee->networks[i]->list,
&ieee->network_free_list);
}