Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_frag: Warn_on when frag_alloc size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue May 31 2022 - 11:14:22 EST


On Tue, 31 May 2022 22:41:12 +0800 Chen Lin wrote:
> At 2022-05-31 02:29:18, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Oh, well, the reuse also needs an update. We can slap a similar
> >condition next to the pfmemalloc check.
>
> The sample code above cannot completely solve the current problem.
> For example, when fragsz is greater than PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE(32768),
> __page_frag_cache_refill will return a memory of only 32768 bytes, so
> should we continue to expand the PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE? Maybe more
> work needs to be done

Right, but I can think of two drivers off the top of my head which will
allocate <=32k frags but none which will allocate more.