netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants

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Message-ID: <836c370c-f8ff-d682-f457-0ad0da622068@mellanox.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:18:48 +0200
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Santosh Raspatur <santosh@...lsio.com>,
        Hariprasad S <hariprasad@...lsio.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded
 variants



On 12/01/2017 5:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
>
> There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc. Let's use the helper
> instead. The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are usually
> not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator. E.g. allocation
> requests < 64kB are basically never failing and invoke OOM killer to
> satisfy the allocation. This sounds too disruptive for something that
> has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc. On the other hand those
> requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the memory allocator would
> succeed after several more reclaim/compaction attempts previously. There
> is no guarantee something like that happens though.
>
> This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
> they are more conservative.
>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>
> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
> Cc: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@...lsio.com>
> Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@...lsio.com>
> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
> Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
> Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>
> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
For the mlx4 parts.

Regards.
Tariq