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ixp4xx: add back the patch for avoiding dma bounce buffers for network buffers, which was lost on the kernel upgrade to 2.6.32. fixes ath9k and improves other drivers' performance on boards with >64M ram

SVN-Revision: 20708
Felix Fietkau 15 years ago
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      target/linux/ixp4xx/patches-2.6.32/600-skb_avoid_dmabounce.patch

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target/linux/ixp4xx/patches-2.6.32/600-skb_avoid_dmabounce.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
++++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
+@@ -264,6 +264,10 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int
+ 	if (!skb)
+ 		goto out;
+ 
++#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_IXP4XX
++	gfp_mask |= GFP_DMA;
++#endif
++
+ 	size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);
+ 	data = kmalloc_node_track_caller(size + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info),
+ 			gfp_mask, node);