From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
===============
[ Upstream commit fb05e7a89f500cfc06ae277bdc911b281928995d ]
We saw excessive direct memory compaction triggered by skb_page_frag_refill.
This causes performance issues and add latency. Commit 5640f7685831e0
introduces the order-3 allocation. According to the changelog, the order-3
allocation isn't a must-have but to improve performance. But direct memory
compaction has high overhead. The benefit of order-3 allocation can't
compensate the overhead of direct memory compaction.
This patch makes the order-3 page allocation atomic. If there is no memory
pressure and memory isn't fragmented, the alloction will still success, so we
don't sacrifice the order-3 benefit here. If the atomic allocation fails,
direct memory compaction will not be triggered, skb_page_frag_refill will
fallback to order-0 immediately, hence the direct memory compaction overhead is
avoided. In the allocation failure case, kswapd is waken up and doing
compaction, so chances are allocation could success next time.
alloc_skb_with_frags is the same.
The mellanox driver does similar thing, if this is accepted, we must fix
the driver too.
V3: fix the same issue in alloc_skb_with_frags as pointed out by Eric
V2: make the changelog clearer
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
Cc: Debabrata Banerjee <dbavatar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +-
net/core/sock.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 02ebb71..72400a1 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -4199,7 +4199,7 @@ struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_with_frags(unsigned long header_len,
while (order) {
if (npages >= 1 << order) {
- page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask |
+ page = alloc_pages((gfp_mask & ~__GFP_WAIT) |
__GFP_COMP |
__GFP_NOWARN |
__GFP_NORETRY,
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 852acbc..1e5130d 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1854,7 +1854,7 @@ bool skb_page_frag_refill(unsigned int sz, struct page_frag *pfrag, gfp_t gfp)
pfrag->offset = 0;
if (SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER) {
- pfrag->page = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_COMP |
+ pfrag->page = alloc_pages((gfp & ~__GFP_WAIT) | __GFP_COMP |
__GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY,
SKB_FRAG_PAGE_ORDER);
if (likely(pfrag->page)) {
--
2.1.0
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