netdev - Re: [PATCH][v3] netfilter: use kvmalloc_array to allocate memory for hashtable

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Date:   Fri, 3 Aug 2018 18:37:16 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, fw@...len.de,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v3] netfilter: use kvmalloc_array to allocate memory for
 hashtable

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:52:13PM +0800, Li RongQing wrote:
> nf_ct_alloc_hashtable is used to allocate memory for conntrack,
> NAT bysrc and expectation hashtable. Assuming 64k bucket size,
> which means 7th order page allocation, __get_free_pages, called
> by nf_ct_alloc_hashtable, will trigger the direct memory reclaim
> and stall for a long time, when system has lots of memory stress
> 
> so replace combination of __get_free_pages and vzalloc with
> kvmalloc_array, which provides a overflow check and a fallback
> if no high order memory is available, and do not retry to reclaim
> memory, reduce stall

Applied, thanks.