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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-03-26 21:02:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-03-28 18:30:40 -0700 |
| commit | 6e9b01909a811555ff3326cf80a5847169c57806 (patch) | |
| tree | 56d515b6f50fae8cee8b8f394ad9482dff3f2745 /net/core/skbuff.c | |
| parent | 49d665b8535e5ea5927b896086dcb2eb65514341 (diff) | |
net: remove gfp_mask from napi_alloc_skb()
__napi_alloc_skb() is napi_alloc_skb() with the added flexibility
of choosing gfp_mask. This is a NAPI function, so GFP_ATOMIC is
implied. The only practical choice the caller has is whether to
set __GFP_NOWARN. But that's a false choice, too, allocation failures
in atomic context will happen, and printing warnings in logs,
effectively for a packet drop, is both too much and very likely
non-actionable.
This leads me to a conclusion that most uses of napi_alloc_skb()
are simply misguided, and should use __GFP_NOWARN in the first
place. We also have a "standard" way of reporting allocation
failures via the queue stat API (qstats::rx-alloc-fail).
The direct motivation for this patch is that one of the drivers
used at Meta calls napi_alloc_skb() (so prior to this patch without
__GFP_NOWARN), and the resulting OOM warning is the top networking
warning in our fleet.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327040213.3153864-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 17617c29be2d..a1be84be5d35 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -775,10 +775,9 @@ skb_fail: EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb); /** - * __napi_alloc_skb - allocate skbuff for rx in a specific NAPI instance + * napi_alloc_skb - allocate skbuff for rx in a specific NAPI instance * @napi: napi instance this buffer was allocated for * @len: length to allocate - * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb and alloc_pages * * Allocate a new sk_buff for use in NAPI receive. This buffer will * attempt to allocate the head from a special reserved region used @@ -787,9 +786,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb); * * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory. */ -struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len, - gfp_t gfp_mask) +struct sk_buff *napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len) { + gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN; struct napi_alloc_cache *nc; struct sk_buff *skb; bool pfmemalloc; @@ -860,7 +859,7 @@ skb_success: skb_fail: return skb; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_alloc_skb); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_alloc_skb); void skb_add_rx_frag_netmem(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, netmem_ref netmem, int off, int size, unsigned int truesize) |