On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 14:21 -0800, Michael Dalton wrote:
> skb_page_frag_refill currently permits only order-0 page allocs
> unless GFP_WAIT is used. Change skb_page_frag_refill to attempt
> higher-order page allocations whether or not GFP_WAIT is used. If
> memory cannot be allocated, the allocator will fall back to
> successively smaller page allocs (down to order-0 page allocs).
> 
> This change brings skb_page_frag_refill in line with the existing
> page allocation strategy employed by netdev_alloc_frag, which attempts
> higher-order page allocations whether or not GFP_WAIT is set, falling
> back to successively lower-order page allocations on failure. Part
> of migration of virtio-net to per-receive queue page frag allocators.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdal...@google.com>
> ---
>  net/core/sock.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>



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