net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:33:36 +0000 (07:33 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 May 2015 20:01:38 +0000 (22:01 +0200)
commitac375adcb8d77980f5c2d25ad586a9ecd4cfd595
treea8ed88cc744fee892261f9915a4d087d4d1ca298
parentecff0913d0461f08cba78a9b9308b7dbc794d39c
net: do not deplete pfmemalloc reserve

[ Upstream commit 79930f5892e134c6da1254389577fffb8bd72c66 ]

build_skb() should look at the page pfmemalloc status.
If set, this means page allocator allocated this page in the
expectation it would help to free other pages. Networking
stack can do that only if skb->pfmemalloc is also set.

Also, we must refrain using high order pages from the pfmemalloc
reserve, so __page_frag_refill() must also use __GFP_NOMEMALLOC for
them. Under memory pressure, using order-0 pages is probably the best
strategy.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/skbuff.c