netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: use hardware buffer pool to allocate skb

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Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:45:29 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Jiafei.Pan@...escale.com" <Jiafei.Pan@...escale.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"jkosina@...e.cz" <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"LeoLi@...escale.com" <LeoLi@...escale.com>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: use hardware buffer pool to allocate skb

On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 10:10 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> So if a page is used twice we are double counting the page size for the 
> socket then, is that correct?  I just want to make sure because prior to 
> this patch both flows did the same thing and counted the portion of the 
> page used in this pass, now with this change for PAGE_SIZE of 4K we 
> count the entire page, and for all other cases we count the portion of 
> the page used.

When a page is split in 2 parts only, probability that a segment holds
the 4K page is quite high (There is a single half page)

When we split say 64KB in 42 segments, the probability a single segment
hold the full 64KB block is very low, so we can almost be safe when we
consider 'truesize = 1536'

Of course there are pathological cases, but attacker has to be quite
smart.

I am just saying that counting 2048 might have a big impact on memory
consumption if all these incoming segments are stored a long time in
receive queues (TCP receive queues or out of order queues) : We might be
off by a factor of 2 on the real memory usage, and delay the TCP
collapsing too much.


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