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net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()

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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>
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Eric Dumazet 2013-10-30 13:10:44 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 74d332c13b
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@ -1800,6 +1800,7 @@ static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
int netdev_refcnt_read(const struct net_device *dev);
void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev);
void synchronize_net(void);
int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev);