linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 7/8] veth: use napi_skb_cache_get_bulk() instead of xdp_alloc_skb

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Message-ID: <871px1oav1.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:58:42 +0100
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Lorenzo Bianconi
 <lorenzo@...nel.org>, Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko
 <andrii@...nel.org>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Jesper
 Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau
 <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 7/8] veth: use napi_skb_cache_get_bulk()
 instead of xdp_alloc_skb_bulk()

Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> writes:

> Now that we can bulk-allocate skbs from the NAPI cache, use that
> function to do that in veth as well instead of direct allocation from
> the kmem caches. veth uses NAPI and GRO, so this is both context-safe
> and beneficial.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>