linux/drivers/net
Mel Gorman 0614002bb5 netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc_page to skb
The skb->pfmemalloc flag gets set to true iff during the slab allocation
of data in __alloc_skb that the the PFMEMALLOC reserves were used.  If
page splitting is used, it is possible that pages will be allocated from
the PFMEMALLOC reserve without propagating this information to the skb.
This patch propagates page->pfmemalloc from pages allocated for fragments
to the skb.

It works by reintroducing and expanding the skb_alloc_page() API to take
an skb.  If the page was allocated from pfmemalloc reserves, it is
automatically copied.  If the driver allocates the page before the skb, it
should call skb_propagate_pfmemalloc() after the skb is allocated to
ensure the flag is copied properly.

Failure to do so is not critical.  The resulting driver may perform slower
if it is used for swap-over-NBD or swap-over-NFS but it should not result
in failure.

[davem@davemloft.net: API rename and consistency]
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>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
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appletalk
arcnet
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caif caif: fix NULL pointer check 2012-07-24 13:54:16 -07:00
can net/c_can: remove conditional compilation of clk code 2012-07-30 17:25:12 -07:00
cris net: Properly define functions with no parameters 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
dsa
ethernet netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc_page to skb 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
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phy Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-07-30 11:45:52 -07:00
plip
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team team: init error value to 0 in team_netpoll_setup() 2012-07-24 13:54:15 -07:00
usb netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from skb_alloc_page to skb 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
vmxnet3
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wimax wimax: fix printk format warnings 2012-07-22 12:18:39 -07:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem 2012-07-27 11:15:03 -04:00
xen-netback xen/netback: only non-freed SKB is queued into tx_queue 2012-06-29 00:50:20 -07:00
dummy.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
eql.c
ifb.c
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
macvlan.c
macvtap.c
Makefile
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
rionet.c
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c tun: experimental zero copy tx support 2012-07-22 12:39:33 -07:00
veth.c
virtio_net.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
xen-netfront.c xen/netfront: teardown the device before unregistering it. 2012-06-27 01:25:41 -07:00