netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: use kvmalloc() for class hash tables

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Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:21:53 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: use kvmalloc() for class hash tables

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:26:46PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> High order GFP_KERNEL allocations can stress the host badly.
> 
> Use modern kvmalloc_array()/kvfree() instead of custom
> allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks for fixing these issues.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>