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

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:20:32 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, shankerwangmiao@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] veth: try harder when allocating queue memory

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:59:08 -0800 you wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] veth: try harder when allocating queue memory
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/1ce7d306ea63

You are awesome, thank you!
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