From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: 'Konstantin Khorenko' <khorenko@virtuozzo.com>,
"oleg.babin@gmail.com" <oleg.babin@gmail.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net/sctp: Avoid allocating high order memory with kmalloc()
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 20:30:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803203009.GG5482@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd32848f0018432fad7246620d32c4e5@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 04:43:28PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Konstantin Khorenko
> > Sent: 03 August 2018 17:21
> >
> > Each SCTP association can have up to 65535 input and output streams.
> > For each stream type an array of sctp_stream_in or sctp_stream_out
> > structures is allocated using kmalloc_array() function. This function
> > allocates physically contiguous memory regions, so this can lead
> > to allocation of memory regions of very high order, i.e.:
> ...
>
> Given how useless SCTP streams are, does anything actually use
> more than about 4?
Maybe Michael can help us with that. I'm also curious now.
Marcelo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-03 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-23 18:41 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sctp: Avoid allocating high order memory with kmalloc() Oleg Babin
2018-04-23 18:41 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/sctp: Make wrappers for accessing in/out streams Oleg Babin
2018-04-23 21:33 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-26 22:19 ` Oleg Babin
2018-04-23 18:41 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/sctp: Replace in/out stream arrays with flex_array Oleg Babin
2018-04-23 21:33 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sctp: Avoid allocating high order memory with kmalloc() Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-26 22:14 ` Oleg Babin
2018-04-26 22:28 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-04-26 22:45 ` Oleg Babin
2018-07-24 15:35 ` Konstantin Khorenko
2018-07-24 17:36 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-08-03 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 " Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-03 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] net/sctp: Make wrappers for accessing in/out streams Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-03 16:41 ` David Laight
2018-08-03 19:50 ` David Miller
2018-08-09 8:39 ` Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-03 20:40 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-08-09 8:40 ` Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-03 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] net/sctp: Replace in/out stream arrays with flex_array Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] net/sctp: Avoid allocating high order memory with kmalloc() David Laight
2018-08-03 20:30 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner [this message]
2018-08-03 20:56 ` Michael Tuexen
2018-08-06 9:34 ` David Laight
2018-08-08 14:48 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-08-03 23:36 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-08-09 8:43 ` Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-10 17:03 ` Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-10 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 " Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-10 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] net/sctp: Make wrappers for accessing in/out streams Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-10 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] net/sctp: Replace in/out stream arrays with flex_array Konstantin Khorenko
2018-08-11 19:36 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] net/sctp: Avoid allocating high order memory with kmalloc() David Miller
2018-08-10 17:41 ` [PATCH v2 " Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
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