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netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves

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Change the skb allocation API to indicate RX usage and use this to fall
back to the PFMEMALLOC reserve when needed.  SKBs allocated from the
reserve are tagged in skb->pfmemalloc.  If an SKB is allocated from the
reserve and the socket is later found to be unrelated to page reclaim, the
packet is dropped so that the memory remains available for page reclaim.
Network protocols are expected to recover from this packet loss.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches]
[davem@davemloft.net: Use static branches, coding style corrections]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Avoid unnecessary cast, fix !CONFIG_NET build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2012-07-31 16:44:19 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7cb0240492
commit c93bdd0e03
7 changed files with 142 additions and 30 deletions
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include/net/sock.h
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@ -659,6 +659,21 @@ static inline bool sock_flag(const struct sock *sk, enum sock_flags flag)
return test_bit(flag, &sk->sk_flags);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
extern struct static_key memalloc_socks;
static inline int sk_memalloc_socks(void)
{
return static_key_false(&memalloc_socks);
}
#else
static inline int sk_memalloc_socks(void)
{
return 0;
}
#endif
static inline gfp_t sk_gfp_atomic(struct sock *sk, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
return GFP_ATOMIC | (sk->sk_allocation & __GFP_MEMALLOC);