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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-07-31 16:44:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -0700 |
| commit | c93bdd0e03e848555d144eb44a1f275b871a8dd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8aff3bc2b9ff9f32e51040a7652bfb31257db626 /include/linux/gfp.h | |
| parent | 7cb0240492caea2f6467f827313478f41877e6ef (diff) | |
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.
[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Ideas taken from various patches]
[davem@davemloft.net: Use static branches, coding style corrections]
[sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Avoid unnecessary cast, fix !CONFIG_NET build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/gfp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index cbd7400e586..4883f393f50 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ void drain_local_pages(void *dummy); */ extern gfp_t gfp_allowed_mask; +/* Returns true if the gfp_mask allows use of ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK */ +bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask); + extern void pm_restrict_gfp_mask(void); extern void pm_restore_gfp_mask(void); |