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

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Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: use kvmalloc() for class hash
 tables

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:26:46 -0700

> 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>

Applied, thanks Eric.