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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-10-05 22:13:18 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-07 03:53:13 +0300
commitd35c99ff77ecb2eb239731b799386f3b3637a31e (patch)
tree35c9a4b47ffd67aa85672dca5bd84d6c83e7a8df /net
parent6664498280cf17a59c3e7cf1a931444c02633ed1 (diff)
downloadlinux-d35c99ff77ecb2eb239731b799386f3b3637a31e.tar.xz
netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()
Since linux-3.15, netlink_dump() can use up to 16384 bytes skb allocations. Due to struct skb_shared_info ~320 bytes overhead, we end up using order-3 (on x86) page allocations, that might trigger direct reclaim and add stress. The intent was really to attempt a large allocation but immediately fallback to a smaller one (order-1 on x86) in case of memory stress. On recent kernels (linux-4.4), we can remove __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM to meet the goal. Old kernels would need to remove __GFP_WAIT While we are at it, since we do an order-3 allocation, allow to use all the allocated bytes instead of 16384 to reduce syscalls during large dumps. iproute2 already uses 32KB recvmsg() buffer sizes. Alexei provided an initial patch downsizing to SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(16384) Fixes: 9063e21fb026 ("netlink: autosize skb lengthes") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <grose@lightfleet.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 627f898c05b9..62bea4591054 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
/* Record the max length of recvmsg() calls for future allocations */
nlk->max_recvmsg_len = max(nlk->max_recvmsg_len, len);
nlk->max_recvmsg_len = min_t(size_t, nlk->max_recvmsg_len,
- 16384);
+ SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(32768));
copied = data_skb->len;
if (len < copied) {
@@ -2083,8 +2083,9 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
if (alloc_min_size < nlk->max_recvmsg_len) {
alloc_size = nlk->max_recvmsg_len;
- skb = alloc_skb(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL |
- __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
+ skb = alloc_skb(alloc_size,
+ (GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) |
+ __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
}
if (!skb) {
alloc_size = alloc_min_size;