netdev - [PATCH net] veth: try harder when allocating queue memory

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Message-ID: <20240223235908.693010-1-kuba@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:59:08 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Miao Wang <shankerwangmiao@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] veth: try harder when allocating queue memory

struct veth_rq is pretty large, 832B total without debug
options enabled. Since commit under Fixes we try to pre-allocate
enough queues for every possible CPU. Miao Wang reports that
this may lead to order-5 allocations which will fail in production.

Let the allocation fallback to vmalloc() and try harder.
These are the same flags we pass to netdev queue allocation.

Reported-and-tested-by: Miao Wang <shankerwangmiao@...il.com>
Fixes: 9d3684c24a52 ("veth: create by default nr_possible_cpus queues")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5F52CAE2-2FB7-4712-95F1-3312FBBFA8DD@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/veth.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index a786be805709..cd4a6fe458f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -1461,7 +1461,8 @@ static int veth_alloc_queues(struct net_device *dev)
 	struct veth_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int i;
 
-	priv->rq = kcalloc(dev->num_rx_queues, sizeof(*priv->rq), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+	priv->rq = kvcalloc(dev->num_rx_queues, sizeof(*priv->rq),
+			    GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
 	if (!priv->rq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1477,7 +1478,7 @@ static void veth_free_queues(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct veth_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	kfree(priv->rq);
+	kvfree(priv->rq);
 }
 
 static int veth_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
-- 
2.43.2