Commit 40ad0a52 authored by Antoine Tenart's avatar Antoine Tenart Committed by Jakub Kicinski

Documentation: add a description for net.core.high_order_alloc_disable

A description is missing for the net.core.high_order_alloc_disable
option in admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst ; add it. The above sysctl option
was introduced by commit ce27ec60 ("net: add high_order_alloc_disable
sysctl/static key").

Thanks to Eric for running again the benchmark cited in the above
commit, showing this knob is now mostly of historical importance.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAntoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707080245.180525-1-atenart@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 5b47d236
...@@ -391,6 +391,18 @@ GRO has decided not to coalesce, it is placed on a per-NAPI list. This ...@@ -391,6 +391,18 @@ GRO has decided not to coalesce, it is placed on a per-NAPI list. This
list is then passed to the stack when the number of segments reaches the list is then passed to the stack when the number of segments reaches the
gro_normal_batch limit. gro_normal_batch limit.
high_order_alloc_disable
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By default the allocator for page frags tries to use high order pages (order-3
on x86). While the default behavior gives good results in most cases, some users
might have hit a contention in page allocations/freeing. This was especially
true on older kernels (< 5.14) when high-order pages were not stored on per-cpu
lists. This allows to opt-in for order-0 allocation instead but is now mostly of
historical importance.
Default: 0
2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets 2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets
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