netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:13:18 +0000 (04:13 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:46:37 +0000 (07:46 +0100)
commit6d123f1d396b50abd51e67eb9171e2ae8b3501ec
treefbf79a3a82bc2f053754ff322f0be58a59615514
parentd72cb5fb36bdc75cc3640b86409c68f1f1cbbe2a
netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()

[ Upstream commit d35c99ff77ecb2eb239731b799386f3b3637a31e ]

Since linux-3.15, netlink_dump() can use up to 16384 bytes skb
allocations.

Due to struct skb_shared_info ~320 bytes overhead, we end up using
order-3 (on x86) page allocations, that might trigger direct reclaim and
add stress.

The intent was really to attempt a large allocation but immediately
fallback to a smaller one (order-1 on x86) in case of memory stress.

On recent kernels (linux-4.4), we can remove __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM to
meet the goal. Old kernels would need to remove __GFP_WAIT

While we are at it, since we do an order-3 allocation, allow to use
all the allocated bytes instead of 16384 to reduce syscalls during
large dumps.

iproute2 already uses 32KB recvmsg() buffer sizes.

Alexei provided an initial patch downsizing to SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(16384)

Fixes: 9063e21fb026 ("netlink: autosize skb lengthes")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <grose@lightfleet.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c