[PATCH][next][v2] iavf: use kvzalloc instead of kzalloc for rx/tx_bi buffer

[Li RongQing]

when changes the rx/tx ring to 4096, kzalloc may fail due to
a temporary shortage on slab entries.

so using kvmalloc to allocate this memory as there is no need
that this memory area is physical continuously.

and using __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL to allocate from kmalloc as
far as possible, which can reduce TLB pressure than vmalloc
as suggested by Eric Dumazet

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com>
---
v2: __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is used

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
index 256fa07d54d5..e7a1e9039cee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_txrx.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ void iavf_clean_tx_ring(struct iavf_ring *tx_ring)
 void iavf_free_tx_resources(struct iavf_ring *tx_ring)
 {
        iavf_clean_tx_ring(tx_ring);
-       kfree(tx_ring->tx_bi);
+       kvfree(tx_ring->tx_bi);
        tx_ring->tx_bi = NULL;
 
        if (tx_ring->desc) {
@@ -622,7 +622,8 @@ int iavf_setup_tx_descriptors(struct iavf_ring *tx_ring)
        /* warn if we are about to overwrite the pointer */
        WARN_ON(tx_ring->tx_bi);
        bi_size = sizeof(struct iavf_tx_buffer) * tx_ring->count;
-       tx_ring->tx_bi = kzalloc(bi_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+       tx_ring->tx_bi = kvzalloc(bi_size, GFP_KERNEL |
+                                         __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
        if (!tx_ring->tx_bi)
                goto err;
 
@@ -643,7 +644,7 @@ int iavf_setup_tx_descriptors(struct iavf_ring *tx_ring)
        return 0;
 
 err:
-       kfree(tx_ring->tx_bi);
+       kvfree(tx_ring->tx_bi);
        tx_ring->tx_bi = NULL;
        return -ENOMEM;
 }
@@ -714,7 +715,7 @@ void iavf_clean_rx_ring(struct iavf_ring *rx_ring)
 void iavf_free_rx_resources(struct iavf_ring *rx_ring)
 {
        iavf_clean_rx_ring(rx_ring);
-       kfree(rx_ring->rx_bi);
+       kvfree(rx_ring->rx_bi);
        rx_ring->rx_bi = NULL;
 
        if (rx_ring->desc) {
@@ -738,7 +739,8 @@ int iavf_setup_rx_descriptors(struct iavf_ring *rx_ring)
        /* warn if we are about to overwrite the pointer */
        WARN_ON(rx_ring->rx_bi);
        bi_size = sizeof(struct iavf_rx_buffer) * rx_ring->count;
-       rx_ring->rx_bi = kzalloc(bi_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+       rx_ring->rx_bi = kvzalloc(bi_size, GFP_KERNEL |
+                                     __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
        if (!rx_ring->rx_bi)
                goto err;
 
@@ -762,7 +764,7 @@ int iavf_setup_rx_descriptors(struct iavf_ring *rx_ring)
 
        return 0;
 err:
-       kfree(rx_ring->rx_bi);
+       kvfree(rx_ring->rx_bi);
        rx_ring->rx_bi = NULL;
        return -ENOMEM;
 }
-- 
2.16.2