netlink: use kvmalloc() in netlink_alloc_large_skb()
This is a followup of commit 234ec0b6034b ("netlink: fix potential
sleeping issue in mqueue_flush_file"), because vfree_atomic()
overhead is unfortunate for medium sized allocations.
1) If the allocation is smaller than PAGE_SIZE, do not bother
with vmalloc() at all. Some arches have 64KB PAGE_SIZE,
while NLMSG_GOODSIZE is smaller than 8KB.
2) Use kvmalloc(), which might allocate one high order page
instead of vmalloc if memory is not too fragmented.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224090630.605917-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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