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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2017-02-18 10:34:18 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-02-20 10:31:50 -0500
commit3608b13ccc51d06e499dfe12b27f134de1286e28 (patch)
tree769119cec70d8346762167c79335d677015c02b4 /drivers
parentb9ef4ab36d23f7332ccd7ba9debc6749cb436288 (diff)
mlx4: reduce OOM risk on arches with large pages
Since mlx4 NIC are used on PowerPC with 64K pages, we need to adapt MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER definition. Otherwise, a fragment sitting in an out of order TCP queue can hold 0.5 Mbytes and it is a serious OOM risk. Fixes: 51151a16a60f ("mlx4: allow order-0 memory allocations in RX path") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index d8ca6d1794ef..4941b692e947 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@
/* Use the maximum between 16384 and a single page */
#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_SIZE PAGE_ALIGN(16384)
-#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
+#define MLX4_EN_ALLOC_PREFER_ORDER min_t(int, get_order(32768), \
+ PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
/* Receive fragment sizes; we use at most 3 fragments (for 9600 byte MTU
* and 4K allocations) */