Re: [PATCH] mm-slab: allocate kmem_cache with __GFP_REPEAT

[Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@parallels.com>]

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 à 18:32 +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov a
> écrit :
>
>> I catch this on our rhel6-openvz kernel, and yes it very patchy,
>> but I don't see any reasons why this cannot be reproduced on mainline kernel.
>>
>> there was abount ten containers with random stuff, node already do intensive swapout but still alive,
>> in this situation starting new containers sometimes (1 per 1000) fails due to kmem_cache_create failures in nf_conntrack,
>> there no other messages except:
>> Unable to create nf_conn slab cache
>> and some
>> nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.
>> (it try allocates huge hash table and do it via vmalloc if kmalloc fails)
>
>
> Does this kernel contain commit 6d4831c2 ?
> (vfs: avoid large kmalloc()s for the fdtable)
>

yes, but not exactly, in our kerner it looks like:

static inline void * alloc_fdmem(unsigned int size)
{
	if (size <= PAGE_SIZE)
		return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
	else
		return vmalloc(size);
}

and looks like this change is came from ancient times =)