Commit f8cbf6bd authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Jakub Kicinski

netlink: use kvmalloc() in netlink_alloc_large_skb()

This is a followup of commit 234ec0b6 ("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: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224090630.605917-1-edumazet@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent c4b04a80
......@@ -1202,23 +1202,21 @@ struct sock *netlink_getsockbyfilp(struct file *filp)
struct sk_buff *netlink_alloc_large_skb(unsigned int size, int broadcast)
{
size_t head_size = SKB_HEAD_ALIGN(size);
struct sk_buff *skb;
void *data;
if (size <= NLMSG_GOODSIZE || broadcast)
if (head_size <= PAGE_SIZE || broadcast)
return alloc_skb(size, GFP_KERNEL);
size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size) +
SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
data = vmalloc(size);
if (data == NULL)
data = kvmalloc(head_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data)
return NULL;
skb = __build_skb(data, size);
if (skb == NULL)
vfree(data);
else
skb = __build_skb(data, head_size);
if (!skb)
kvfree(data);
else if (is_vmalloc_addr(data))
skb->destructor = netlink_skb_destructor;
return skb;
......
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