High order pages are optional here since commit 51151a16a60f ("mlx4: allow order-0 memory allocations in RX path"), so here is no reason for depleting reserves. Generic __netdev_alloc_frag() implements the same logic.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c index 86bcfe510e4e..56d070d9cf01 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int mlx4_alloc_pages(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv, gfp_t gfp = _gfp; if (order) - gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN; + gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; page = alloc_pages(gfp, order); if (likely(page)) break;