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SubjectRe: [PATCH net 0/3] Fix for BPF devmap percpu allocation splat
Hi Daniel and Tejun,

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 06:25:26AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Daniel Borkmann (3):
> > mm, percpu: add support for __GFP_NOWARN flag
>
> This looks fine.
>

Looks good to me too.

> > bpf: fix splat for illegal devmap percpu allocation
> > bpf: do not test for PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE before percpu allocations
>
> These look okay too but if it helps percpu allocator can expose the
> maximum size / alignment supported to take out the guessing game too.
>

I can add this once we've addressed the below if we want to.

> Also, the reason why PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE is what it is is because
> nobody needed anything bigger. Increasing the size doesn't really
> cost much at least on 64bit archs. Is that something we want to be
> considering?
>

I'm not sure I see the reason we can't match the minimum allocation size
with the unit size? It seems weird to arbitrate the maximum allocation
size given a lower bound on the unit size.

Thanks,
Dennis

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