1. 05 Apr, 2012 1 commit
    • Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo's avatar
      mlx4: allocate just enough pages instead of always 4 pages · 117980c4
      Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
      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: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      117980c4
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