Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 117980c4c9 mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages ... The driver uses a 2-order allocation, which is too much on architectures like ppc64, which has a 64KiB page. This particular allocation is used for large packet fragments that may have a size of 512, 1024, 4096 or fill the whole allocation. So, a minimum size of 16384 is good enough and will be the same size that is used in architectures of 4KiB sized pages. This will avoid allocation failures that we see when the system is under stress, but still has plenty of memory, like the one below. This will also allow us to set the interface MTU to higher values like 9000, which was not possible on ppc64 without this patch. Node 1 DMA: 737*64kB 37*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB 0*8192kB 0*16384kB = 51904kB 83137 total pagecache pages 0 pages in swap cache Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 Free swap = 10420096kB Total swap = 10420096kB 107776 pages RAM 1184 pages reserved 147343 pages shared 28152 pages non-shared netstat: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x4020 Call Trace: [c0000001a4fa3770] [c000000000012f04] .show_stack+0x74/0x1c0 (unreliable) [c0000001a4fa3820] [c00000000016af38] .__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x618/0x930 [c0000001a4fa39a0] [c0000000001a71a0] .alloc_pages_current+0xb0/0x170 [c0000001a4fa3a40] [d00000000dcc3e00] .mlx4_en_alloc_frag+0x200/0x240 [mlx4_en] [c0000001a4fa3b10] [d00000000dcc3f8c] .mlx4_en_complete_rx_desc+0x14c/0x250 [mlx4_en] [c0000001a4fa3be0] [d00000000dcc4eec] .mlx4_en_process_rx_cq+0x62c/0x850 [mlx4_en] [c0000001a4fa3d20] [d00000000dcc5150] .mlx4_en_poll_rx_cq+0x40/0x90 [mlx4_en] [c0000001a4fa3dc0] [c0000000004e2bb8] .net_rx_action+0x178/0x450 [c0000001a4fa3eb0] [c00000000009c9b8] .__do_softirq+0x118/0x290 [c0000001a4fa3f90] [c000000000031df8] .call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24 [c000000184c3b520] [c00000000000e700] .do_softirq+0xf0/0x110 [c000000184c3b5c0] [c00000000009c6d4] .irq_exit+0xb4/0xc0 [c000000184c3b640] [c00000000000e964] .do_IRQ+0x144/0x230 Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>		2012-04-04 20:34:29 -04:00
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mlx4	mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages	2012-04-04 20:34:29 -04:00
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