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From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jun 2022 09:13:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: use kvmalloc_array() to allocate table_perturb
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 9:05 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 12:08 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:
> >
> > In our server, there may be no high order (>= 6) memory since we reserve
> > lots of HugeTLB pages when booting.  Then the system panic.  So use
> > kvmalloc_array() to allocate table_perturb.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
>
> Please add a Fixes: tag and CC original author ?
>
> Thanks.

Also using alloc_large_system_hash() might be a better option anyway,
spreading pages on multiple nodes on NUMA hosts.