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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 at 20:46 GMT, Romain Francoise <romain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Creating a vhost-net device allocates an object large enough (34320 bytes
> on x86-64) to trigger an order-4 allocation, which may fail if memory if
> fragmented:
>
> libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x2000d0
> ...
> SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node 0 (gfp=0xd0)
> cache: size-65536, object size: 65536, order: 4
> node 0: slabs: 8/8, objs: 8/8, free: 0
>
> In that situation, rather than forcing the caller to use regular
> virtio-net, try to allocate the descriptor with vmalloc().
>
The real problem is vhost_net struct is really big, it
should be reduced rather than workarounded like this.
> +static void vhost_net_kvfree(void *addr)
> +{
> + if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
> + vfree(addr);
> + else
> + kfree(addr);
> +}
> +
This kind of stuff should really go to mm, not netdev.
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