netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH] net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:06:34 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH] net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage
 and recycle pages

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:23 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch is meant to help improve performance by reducing the number of
> locked operations required to allocate a frag on x86 and other platforms.
> This is accomplished by using atomic_set operations on the page count
> instead of calling get_page and put_page.  It is based on work originally
> provided by Eric Dumazet.
> 
> In addition it also helps to reduce memory overhead when using TCP.  This
> is done by recycling the page if the only holder of the frame is the
> netdev_alloc_frag call itself.  This can occur when skb heads are stolen by
> either GRO or TCP and the driver providing the packets is using paged frags
> to store all of the data for the packets.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> ---
> 
> v2: Reverted back to something closer to the patch that Eric originally
>     submitted.  The main goal in all this is to get the removal of expensive
>     atomic ops and recycling added for now while Eric is still working on
>     an approach that uses larger pages.
> 
>  net/core/skbuff.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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