netlink: use kvmalloc() in netlink_alloc_large_skb()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:06:30 +0000 (09:06 +0000)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:31:28 +0000 (08:31 -0800)
commitf8cbf6bde4c8d5d32330bcceafa7b139fec89f97
tree81dbdbfeae33ceb76d38efbd09cf9f097258e071
parentc4b04a802d8e3996e588cbbb47756b2f9d239d78
netlink: use kvmalloc() in netlink_alloc_large_skb()

This is a followup of commit 234ec0b6034b ("netlink: fix potential
sleeping issue in mqueue_flush_file"), because vfree_atomic()
overhead is unfortunate for medium sized allocations.

1) If the allocation is smaller than PAGE_SIZE, do not bother
   with vmalloc() at all. Some arches have 64KB PAGE_SIZE,
   while NLMSG_GOODSIZE is smaller than 8KB.

2) Use kvmalloc(), which might allocate one high order page
   instead of vmalloc if memory is not too fragmented.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224090630.605917-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c