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Revision fb05e7a89f500cfc06ae277bdc911b281928995d authored by Shaohua Li on 11 June 2015, 23:50:48 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 12 June 2015, 00:33:44 UTC
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@google.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Debabrata Banerjee <dbavatar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: fb05e7a89f500cfc06ae277bdc911b281928995d authored by Shaohua Li on 11 June 2015, 23:50:48 UTC
net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation
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