netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: attempt a single high order allocation

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: attempt a single high order allocation

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:49:34 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> In commit ed98df3361f0 ("net: use __GFP_NORETRY for high order
> allocations") we tried to address one issue caused by order-3
> allocations.
> 
> We still observe high latencies and system overhead in situations where
> compaction is not successful.
> 
> Instead of trying order-3, order-2, and order-1, do a single order-3
> best effort and immediately fallback to plain order-0.
> 
> This mimics slub strategy to fallback to slab min order if the high
> order allocation used for performance failed.
> 
> Order-3 allocations give a performance boost only if they can be done
> without recurring and expensive memory scan.
> 
> Quoting David :
> 
> The page allocator relies on synchronous (sync light) memory compaction
> after direct reclaim for allocations that don't retry and deferred
> compaction doesn't work with this strategy because the allocation order
> is always decreasing from the previous failed attempt.
> 
> This means sync light compaction will always be encountered if memory
> cannot be defragmented or reclaimed several times during the
> skb_page_frag_refill() iteration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

Do you want me to queue this up for -stable?
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