Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761985AbXFTD4P (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:56:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759637AbXFTDz7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:55:59 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:57786 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757071AbXFTDz7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:55:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:55:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Kumar Gala X-X-Sender: galak@blarg.am.freescale.net To: Linus Torvalds cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Please pull from 'for_linus' branch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1352 Lines: 36 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 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 Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/