netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves

Change the skb allocation API to indicate RX usage and use this to fall
back to the PFMEMALLOC reserve when needed.  SKBs allocated from the
reserve are tagged in skb->pfmemalloc.  If an SKB is allocated from the
reserve and the socket is later found to be unrelated to page reclaim, the
packet is dropped so that the memory remains available for page reclaim.
Network protocols are expected to recover from this packet loss.

[[email protected]: Ideas taken from various patches]
[[email protected]: Use static branches, coding style corrections]
[[email protected]: Avoid unnecessary cast, fix !CONFIG_NET build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Christie <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Mel Gorman 2012-07-31 16:44:19 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit c93bdd0e03
7 changed files with 142 additions and 30 deletions

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@ -279,9 +279,6 @@ static inline struct page *mem_map_next(struct page *iter,
#define __paginginit __init
#endif
/* Returns true if the gfp_mask allows use of ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK */
bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask);
/* Memory initialisation debug and verification */
enum mminit_level {
MMINIT_WARNING,