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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: use bigger pages in __netdev_alloc_frag
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:11:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926131110.GL10611@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348650402.5093.176.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

Hello Eric,

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:06:42AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> +	int order;
...
> +		for (order = NETDEV_FRAG_PAGE_MAX_ORDER; ;) {
> +			gfp_t gfp = gfp_mask;
> +
> +			if (order)
> +				gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN;
> +			nc->frag.page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
> +			if (likely(nc->frag.page))
> +				break;
> +			if (--order <= 0)
> +				goto end;
> +		}

I think you probably intended the last if to be "if (--order < 0)", as 
otherwise the alloc will never be attempted with an order 0 page, which 
could harm systems suffering from extreme memory fragmentation.  Cheers,

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26  9:06 [PATCH net-next] net: use bigger pages in __netdev_alloc_frag Eric Dumazet
2012-09-26 13:11 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2012-09-26 13:57   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-26 16:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-09-26 16:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-26 16:36     ` Alexander Duyck
2012-09-26 16:46       ` [PATCH net-next v2] " Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 23:30         ` David Miller

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