net: allow large number of rx queues
netif_alloc_rx_queues() uses kcalloc() to allocate memory
for "struct netdev_queue *_rx" array.
If we are doing large rx queue allocation kcalloc() might
fail, so this patch does a fallback to vzalloc().
Similar implementation is done for tx queue allocation in
netif_alloc_netdev_queues().
We avoid failure of high order memory allocation
with the help of vzalloc(), this allows us to do large
rx and tx queue allocation which in turn helps us to
increase the number of queues in tun.
As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path,
__GFP_REPEAT flag is used with kzalloc() to do this fallback
only when really needed.
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 683d493..8054561 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6172,13 +6172,16 @@
{
unsigned int i, count = dev->num_rx_queues;
struct netdev_rx_queue *rx;
+ size_t sz = count * sizeof(*rx);
BUG_ON(count < 1);
- rx = kcalloc(count, sizeof(struct netdev_rx_queue), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!rx)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
+ rx = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_REPEAT);
+ if (!rx) {
+ rx = vzalloc(sz);
+ if (!rx)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
dev->_rx = rx;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
@@ -6808,7 +6811,7 @@
netif_free_tx_queues(dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
- kfree(dev->_rx);
+ kvfree(dev->_rx);
#endif
kfree(rcu_dereference_protected(dev->ingress_queue, 1));