netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: relax alloc_skb_with

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Message-ID: <20230801135455.268935-1-edumazet@google.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2023 13:54:51 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, Tahsin Erdogan <trdgn@...zon.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: relax alloc_skb_with_frags() max size

alloc_skb_with_frags(), while being able to use high order allocations,
limits the payload size to PAGE_SIZE * MAX_SKB_FRAGS

Reviewing Tahsin Erdogan patch [1], it was clear to me we need
to remove this limitation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230731230736.109216-1-trdgn@amazon.com/

Eric Dumazet (4):
  net: allow alloc_skb_with_frags() to allocate bigger packets
  net: tun: change tun_alloc_skb() to allow bigger paged allocations
  net/packet: change packet_alloc_skb() to allow bigger paged
    allocations
  net: tap: change tap_alloc_skb() to allow bigger paged allocations

 drivers/net/tap.c      |  4 ++-
 drivers/net/tun.c      |  4 ++-
 net/core/skbuff.c      | 56 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 net/packet/af_packet.c |  4 ++-
 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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