netdev - Re: [RFC v2] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:38:22 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, Kernel-team@...com,
	clm@...com, linux-mm@...ck.org, dbavatar@...il.com,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] net: use atomic allocation for order-3 page allocation

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 16:32 -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:

> 
> Ok, looks similar, added. Didn't trigger this one though.

Probably because you do not use af_unix with big enough messages.

> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 3cfff2a..9856c7a 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -4398,7 +4398,9 @@ struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_with_frags(unsigned long header_len,
>  
>  		while (order) {
>  			if (npages >= 1 << order) {
> -				page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask |

Here, order is > 0 (Look at while (order) right above) 

> +				gfp_t gfp = order > 0 ?
> +					gfp_mask & ~__GFP_WAIT : gfp_mask;
> +				page = alloc_pages(gfp |
>  						   __GFP_COMP |
>  						   __GFP_NOWARN |



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