From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> [ 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html