netdev - Re: [PATCH][net-next][v3] rtnetlink: introduce nlmsg_new_large and use it in rtnl

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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 04:20:24 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next][v3] rtnetlink: introduce nlmsg_new_large and use it
 in rtnl_getlink

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:01:08 +0800 you wrote:
> if a PF has 256 or more VFs, ip link command will allocate an order 3
> memory or more, and maybe trigger OOM due to memory fragment,
> the VFs needed memory size is computed in rtnl_vfinfo_size.
> 
> so introduce nlmsg_new_large which calls netlink_alloc_large_skb in
> which vmalloc is used for large memory, to avoid the failure of
> allocating memory
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v3] rtnetlink: introduce nlmsg_new_large and use it in rtnl_getlink
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ac40916a3f72

You are awesome, thank you!
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