net: extend net_device allocation to vmalloc()
Joby Poriyath provided a xen-netback patch to reduce the size of
xenvif structure as some netdev allocation could fail under
memory pressure/fragmentation.
This patch is handling the problem at the core level, allowing
any netdev structures to use vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed.
As vmalloc() adds overhead on a critical network path, add __GFP_REPEAT
to kzalloc() flags to do this fallback only when really needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Joby Poriyath <joby.poriyath@citrix.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index cb1d918..e6353ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1800,6 +1800,7 @@
int netdev_refcnt_read(const struct net_device *dev);
void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
+void netdev_freemem(struct net_device *dev);
void synchronize_net(void);
int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
