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| author | Eric Dumazet | 2013-10-30 13:10:44 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2013-11-03 23:19:00 -0500 |
| commit | 74d332c13b2148ae934ea94dac1745ae92efe8e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f8f287774deaba28fa4c85d085d587ae7515aaf /net/core | |
| parent | b397f99921827e114d7f5600447e172a99c50165 (diff) | |
net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()
Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of
xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under
memory pressure/fragmentation.
This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing
any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed.
As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Joby Poriyath <joby.poriyath@citrix.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 0054c8c75f50..0e6136546a8c 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -6196,6 +6196,16 @@ void netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops(struct net_device *dev, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops); +void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev) +{ + char *addr = (char *)dev - dev->padded; + + if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) + vfree(addr); + else + kfree(addr); +} + /** * alloc_netdev_mqs - allocate network device * @sizeof_priv: size of private data to allocate space for @@ -6239,7 +6249,9 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name, /* ensure 32-byte alignment of whole construct */ alloc_size += NETDEV_ALIGN - 1; - p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT); + if (!p) + p = vzalloc(alloc_size); if (!p) return NULL; @@ -6248,7 +6260,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name, dev->pcpu_refcnt = alloc_percpu(int); if (!dev->pcpu_refcnt) - goto free_p; + goto free_dev; if (dev_addr_init(dev)) goto free_pcpu; @@ -6301,8 +6313,8 @@ free_pcpu: kfree(dev->_rx); #endif -free_p: - kfree(p); +free_dev: + netdev_freemem(dev); return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_netdev_mqs); @@ -6339,7 +6351,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) /* Compatibility with error handling in drivers */ if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) { - kfree((char *)dev - dev->padded); + netdev_freemem(dev); return; } diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index d954b56b4e47..d03f2c9750fa 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ static void netdev_release(struct device *d) BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_RELEASED); kfree(dev->ifalias); - kfree((char *)dev - dev->padded); + netdev_freemem(dev); } static const void *net_namespace(struct device *d) |