On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 03:50:26PM +0100, Karsten Graul wrote: > On 20/01/2022 15:09, Tony Lu wrote: > > When analyzed memory usage of SMC, we found that the size of struct > > smc_link_group is 16048 bytes, which is too big for a busy machine to > > allocate contiguous memory. Using kvzalloc instead that falls back to > > vmalloc if there has not enough contiguous memory. > > I am wondering where the needed contiguous memory for the required RMB buffers should come from when > you don't even get enough storage for the initial link group? Yes, this is what I want to talking about. The RMB buffers size inherits from TCP, we cannot assume that RMB is always larger than 16k bytes, the tcp_mem can be changed on the fly, and it can be tuned to very small for saving memory. Also, If we freed existed link group or somewhere else, we can allocate enough contiguous memory for the new link group. > The idea is that when the system is so low on contiguous memory then a link group creation should fail > early, because most of the later buffer allocations will also fail then later. IMHO, it is not a "pre-checker" for allocating buffer, it is a reminder for us to save contiguous memory, this is a precious resource, and a possible way to do this. This patch is not the best approach to solve this problem, but the simplest one. A possible approach to allocate link array in link group with a pointer to another memory. Glad to hear your advice. Thanks, Tony Lu
