netdev - [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] net/packet: change packet_alloc

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Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2023 20:52:53 +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 v2 net-next 3/4] net/packet: change packet_alloc_skb() to
 allow bigger paged allocations

packet_alloc_skb() is currently calling sock_alloc_send_pskb()
forcing order-0 page allocations.

Switch to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, to increase max size by 8x.

Also add logic to increase the linear part if needed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Tahsin Erdogan <trdgn@...zon.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 8e3ddec4c3d57e7492b55404db3119cbba6f6022..3b77d255d22d6d2ed23cfc50e69a32e9c7b94531 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2927,8 +2927,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *packet_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, size_t prepad,
 	if (prepad + len < PAGE_SIZE || !linear)
 		linear = len;
 
+	if (len - linear > MAX_SKB_FRAGS * (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
+		linear = len - MAX_SKB_FRAGS * (PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
 	skb = sock_alloc_send_pskb(sk, prepad + linear, len - linear, noblock,
-				   err, 0);
+				   err, PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
 	if (!skb)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.41.0.585.gd2178a4bd4-goog