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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] IB/mlx5: Reduce max order of memory allocated for xlt update
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 04:53:55AM +0000, Praveen Kumar Kannoju wrote:
> To update xlt (during mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr()), the driver can request up to
> 1 MB (order-8) memory, depending on the size of the MR. This costly
> allocation can sometimes take very long to return (a few seconds). This
> causes the calling application to hang for a long time, especially when the
> system is fragmented. To avoid these long latency spikes, the calls the
> higher order allocations need to fail faster in case they are not
> available. In order to acheive this we need __GFP_NORETRY flag in the
> gfp_mask before during fetching the free pages. This patch adds this flag
> to the mask.
>
> Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar Kannoju <praveen.kannoju@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason

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