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 ce27ec6064 ("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: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220707080245.180525-1-atenart@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Antoine Tenart 2022-07-07 10:02:45 +02:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent 5b47d23646
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@ -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
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
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