netdev - Re: [RFC] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:55:55 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, Kernel-team@...com,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 18:18 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:

> But, is there any fallback to a single page allocation somewhere else?
> If this is the only way to get memory, we might want to add a single
> alloc_page path that won't trigger compaction but is at least able to
> wait for kswapd to make progress.

Sure, there is a fallback to order-0 in both skb_page_frag_refill() and
alloc_skb_with_frags() 

They also use __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY


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