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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2022-09-28 10:43:09 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-09-29 18:48:15 -0700
commitdbae2b062824fc2d35ae2d5df2f500626c758e80 (patch)
treed946ed8bfe8065c876dd40d230d7ab11155bd90d /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent7cba18332e3635aaae60e4e7d4e52849de50d91b (diff)
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net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache
After commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") we are observing 10-20% regressions in performance tests with small packets. The perf trace points to high pressure on the slab allocator. This change tries to improve the allocation schema for small packets using an idea originally suggested by Eric: a new per CPU page frag is introduced and used in __napi_alloc_skb to cope with small allocation requests. To ensure that the above does not lead to excessive truesize underestimation, the frag size for small allocation is inflated to 1K and all the above is restricted to build with 4K page size. Note that we need to update accordingly the run-time check introduced with commit fd9ea57f4e95 ("net: add napi_get_frags_check() helper"). Alex suggested a smart page refcount schema to reduce the number of atomic operations and deal properly with pfmemalloc pages. Under small packet UDP flood, I measure a 15% peak tput increases. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Alexander H Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6b6f65957c59f86a353fc09a5127e83a32ab5999.1664350652.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 7a084a1c14e98e..64c3a5864969ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3821,6 +3821,7 @@ void netif_receive_skb_list(struct list_head *head);
gro_result_t napi_gro_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb);
void napi_gro_flush(struct napi_struct *napi, bool flush_old);
struct sk_buff *napi_get_frags(struct napi_struct *napi);
+void napi_get_frags_check(struct napi_struct *napi);
gro_result_t napi_gro_frags(struct napi_struct *napi);
struct packet_offload *gro_find_receive_by_type(__be16 type);
struct packet_offload *gro_find_complete_by_type(__be16 type);