af_unix: reduce high order page allocations
unix_dgram_sendmsg() currently builds linear skbs, and this can stress
page allocator with high order page allocations. When memory gets
fragmented, this can eventually fail.
We can try to use order-2 allocations for skb head (SKB_MAX_ALLOC) plus
up to 16 page fragments to lower pressure on buddy allocator.
This patch has no effect on messages of less than 16064 bytes.
(on 64bit arches with PAGE_SIZE=4096)
For bigger messages (from 16065 to 81600 bytes), this patch brings
reliability at the expense of performance penalty because of extra pages
allocations.
netperf -t DG_STREAM -T 0,2 -- -m 16064 -s 200000
->4086040 Messages / 10s
netperf -t DG_STREAM -T 0,2 -- -m 16068 -s 200000
->3901747 Messages / 10s
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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