netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: allow order-0 memory allocations in RX path

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:19:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	or.gerlitz@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, amirv@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, yevgenyp@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx4: allow order-0 memory allocations in RX
 path

From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:53:50 +0300

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>>
>> mlx4 exclusively uses order-2 allocations in RX path, which are
>> likely to fail under memory pressure.
>>
>> We therefore drop frames more than needed.
>>
>> This patch tries order-3, order-2, order-1 and finally order-0
>> allocations to keep good performance, yet allow allocations if/when
>> memory gets fragmented.
>>
>> By using larger pages, and avoiding unnecessary get_page()/put_page()
>> on compound pages, this patch improves performance as well, lowering
>> false sharing on struct page.
>>
>> Also use GFP_KERNEL allocations in initialization path, as allocating 12
>> MB (390 order-3 pages) can easily fail with GFP_ATOMIC.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> Amir is OOO and I am covering for him, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> 

Applied.
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