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Pierre Barre
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While developing a 9P server (https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS) and testing it under high-load, I was running into allocation failures. The failures occur even with plenty of free memory available because kmalloc requires contiguous physical memory. This results in errors like: ls: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_COMP) This patch introduces a transport capability flag (supports_vmalloc) that indicates whether a transport can work with vmalloc'd buffers (non-physically contiguous memory). Transports requiring DMA should leave this flag as false. The fd-based transports (tcp, unix, fd) set this flag to true, and p9_fcall_init will use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc for these transports. This allows the allocator to fall back to vmalloc when contiguous physical memory is not available. Additionally, if kmem_cache_alloc fails, the code falls back to kvmalloc for transports that support it. Signed-off-by: Pierre Barre <pierre@barre.sh> Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> Message-ID: <d2017c29-11fb-44a5-bd0f-4204329bbefb@app.fastmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
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