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Merge branch 'cxgb4-reduce-memory-footprint-for-collecting-firmware-dump'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:56:32 +0000 (14:56 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:56:32 +0000 (14:56 -0500)
commit0c4b73ec8b4c86b9e6cd5998163e8a8ca8250d11
tree69bb3d2dd776fa0c0f95a1d72b1d6c7e4993fd25
parentf201031b65a519f0ab24e9dc29886630b54da276
parent31dd765ca5d8d1e89537a1c94cdec3b169f415aa
Merge branch 'cxgb4-reduce-memory-footprint-for-collecting-firmware-dump'

Rahul Lakkireddy says:

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cxgb4: reduce memory footprint for collecting firmware dump

Firmware dump can be large (upto 2 GB).  In low memory conditions,
ethtool fails to allocate such large memory.  So, use zlib deflate
to compress collected firmware dump.

Patch 1 updates collection logic to use compression.

Patch 2 adds zlib deflate to compress collected firmware dump.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>