netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: handle tcp_net_metrics_init() order-5 memory allocation failures

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:37:11 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jln@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: handle tcp_net_metrics_init() order-5 memory
 allocation failures

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:31:53 -0800

> Well, we dont really know what the size needs to be, and your proposal
> reduces the size by a 4 factor, even for the initial namespace.
> 
> Julien report was about Chrome browser own netns, on a suspend/resume
> cycle (or something like that)
> 
> If size can influence behavior, we could try a vmalloc() if kmalloc()
> fails...

Agreed.

> [PATCH v3] tcp: handle tcp_net_metrics_init() order-5 memory allocation failures
> 
> order-5 allocations can fail with current kernels, we should
> try vmalloc() as well.
> 
> Reported-by: Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

This looks great, applied, thanks.
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