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