linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: net: disable kswapd for high-order network buffer allocation

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:19:05 +0800
From: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
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	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, 
	Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>, Huacai Zhou <zhouhuacai@...o.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: net: disable kswapd for high-order network buffer allocation

> >
> > >
> > > I think you are missing something to control how much memory  can be
> > > pushed on each TCP socket ?
> > >
> > > What is tcp_wmem on your phones ? What about tcp_mem ?
> > >
> > > Have you looked at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
> >
> > # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
> > 524288  1048576 6710886
>
> Ouch. That is insane tcp_wmem[0] .
>
> Please stick to 4096, or risk OOM of various sorts.
>
> >
> > # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat
> > 4294967295
> >
> > Any thoughts on these settings?
>
> Please look at
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
>
> tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
> A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
> thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
> reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
> socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
> also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
>
> This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
> sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
> to the global variable has immediate effect.
>
>
> Setting this sysctl to 2MB can effectively reduce the amount of memory
> in TCP write queues by 66 %,
> or allow you to increase tcp_wmem[2] so that only flows needing big
> BDP can get it.

We obtained these settings from our hardware vendors.

It might be worth exploring these settings further, but I can’t quite see
their connection to high-order allocations, since high-order allocations are
kernel macros.

#define SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER     get_order(32768)
#define PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE        __ALIGN_MASK(32768, ~PAGE_MASK)
#define PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_ORDER       get_order(PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)

Is there anything I’m missing?

Thanks
Barry