On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 14:53 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:16:27PM -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> > > I don't get how this is related to patch 3/3 exactly. > That one seems to clamp the allocations from ewma to at most > PAGE_SIZE, so how to we get higher-order allocations here? > Could you clarify please?
If your ewma stabilizes at 2050 bytes per frag, using order-0 page will waste ~50% of memory. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
