netdev - Re: [PATCH V3,net-next, 3/4] net: mana: Enable RX path to handle various MTU sizes

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Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:06:08 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3,net-next, 3/4] net: mana: Enable RX path to handle
 various MTU sizes

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:16:02 -0700 Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> +	} else if (rxq->alloc_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
> +		if (is_napi)
> +			va = napi_alloc_frag(rxq->alloc_size);

Allocating frag larger than a page is not safe.
Frag allocator falls back to allocating single pages, doesn't it?