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af_unix: reduce high order page allocations
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unix_dgram_sendmsg() currently builds linear skbs, and this can stress
page allocator with high order page allocations. When memory gets
fragmented, this can eventually fail.

We can try to use order-2 allocations for skb head (SKB_MAX_ALLOC) plus
up to 16 page fragments to lower pressure on buddy allocator.

This patch has no effect on messages of less than 16064 bytes.
(on 64bit arches with PAGE_SIZE=4096)

For bigger messages (from 16065 to 81600 bytes), this patch brings
reliability at the expense of performance penalty because of extra pages
allocations.

netperf -t DG_STREAM -T 0,2 -- -m 16064 -s 200000
->4086040 Messages / 10s

netperf -t DG_STREAM -T 0,2 -- -m 16068 -s 200000
->3901747 Messages / 10s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored and David S. Miller committed Apr 3, 2012
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15 changes: 12 additions & 3 deletions net/unix/af_unix.c
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Expand Up @@ -1442,6 +1442,7 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
long timeo;
struct scm_cookie tmp_scm;
int max_level;
int data_len = 0;

if (NULL == siocb->scm)
siocb->scm = &tmp_scm;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1475,7 +1476,13 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (len > sk->sk_sndbuf - 32)
goto out;

skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, len, msg->msg_flags&MSG_DONTWAIT, &err);
if (len > SKB_MAX_ALLOC)
data_len = min_t(size_t,
len - SKB_MAX_ALLOC,
MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE);

skb = sock_alloc_send_pskb(sk, len - data_len, data_len,
msg->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &err);
if (skb == NULL)
goto out;

Expand All @@ -1485,8 +1492,10 @@ static int unix_dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
max_level = err + 1;
unix_get_secdata(siocb->scm, skb);

skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
err = memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), msg->msg_iov, len);
skb_put(skb, len - data_len);
skb->data_len = data_len;
skb->len = len;
err = skb_copy_datagram_from_iovec(skb, 0, msg->msg_iov, 0, len);
if (err)
goto out_free;

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