On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 16:56 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> My suggestion is to use a recent kernel, and/or eventually backport the
> mm fixes if any.
>
> order-3 allocations should not reclaim 2GB out of 8GB.
>
> There is a reason PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER exists and is 3
Hmm... it looks like I missed __GFP_NORETRY
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 5393b4b719d7..5f42a4d70cb2 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ bool skb_page_frag_refill(unsigned int sz, struct
page_frag *pfrag, gfp_t prio)
gfp_t gfp = prio;
if (order)
- gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN;
+ gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY;
pfrag->page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
if (likely(pfrag->page)) {
pfrag->offset = 0;
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