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From: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
To: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	dgibson@redhat.com, vfalico@gmail.com,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Vladislav Yasevich" <vyasevic@redhat.com>,
	"Jerry Chu" <hkchu@google.com>,
	wuzhy@redhat.com, "Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@parallels.com>,
	"Tom Herbert" <therbert@google.com>,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com, xii@google.com,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"Jiří Pírko" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"sergei shtylyov" <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: allow large number of rx queues
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:31:28 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497267937.1868067.1416501088558.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHA+R7MnLy=8uL_hSnx=BN2QTs2kvempTxtmSO6hjcS+E0yRwg@mail.gmail.com>


> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path,
> > __GFP_REPEAT flag is used with kzalloc() to do this fallback
> > only when really needed.
> >
> 
> Are you sure we need __GFP_REPEAT? We have vmalloc() as
> fallback of kmalloc() in many places of networking (grep kvfree),
> none of those I checked has this flag set.

Its there in netif_alloc_netdev_queues() function in same file.
Also, I found it some other places as well.
I think its good to have.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-20 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-18 16:22 [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: allow large number of rx queues Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 20:29   ` Cong Wang
2014-11-20 16:31     ` Pankaj Gupta [this message]
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] tuntap: Accept tuntap maximum number of queues as sysctl Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] tuntap: reduce the size of tun_struct by using flex array Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-18 16:22 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] tuntap: Increase the number of queues in tun Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-19  1:43 ` [PATCH net-net 0/4] Increase the limit of tuntap queues Alexei Starovoitov
2014-11-19 20:16 ` David Miller
2014-11-19 20:44   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-23  5:22     ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-23 10:46     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-23 18:43       ` David Miller
2014-11-23 20:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-24  1:23           ` David Miller
2014-11-24  8:02             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-24 14:28               ` Pankaj Gupta
2014-11-24  3:23       ` Jason Wang
2014-11-24  7:55         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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