FROMGIT: vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
When transmitting a vsock packet, virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() calls virtio_transport_alloc_linear_skb() to allocate and fill SKBs with the transmit data. Unfortunately, these are always linear allocations and can therefore result in significant pressure on kmalloc() considering that the maximum packet size (VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE + VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM) is a little over 64KiB, resulting in a 128KiB allocation for each packet. Rework the vsock SKB allocation so that, for sizes with page order greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, a nonlinear SKB is allocated instead with the packet header in the SKB and the transmit data in the fragments. Note that this affects both the vhost and virtio transports. Reviewed-by:Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-10-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit c7991b44d7b44f9270dec63acd0b2965d29aab43 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost) Bug: 421244320 Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <willdeacon@google.com> Change-Id: Icf2d6179ca7ac36383604ba6e0fd96a7f5a9c767
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