From fb05e7a89f500cfc06ae277bdc911b281928995d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:50:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation 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 Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Debabrata Banerjee Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed