netdev - [PATCH 1/3] virtio_net: Recycle some more rx buffer pages

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Message-Id: <200811171344.57410.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:44:57 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] virtio_net: Recycle some more rx buffer pages

From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>

Each time we re-fill the recv queue with buffers, we allocate
one too many skbs and free it again when adding fails. We should
recycle the pages allocated in this case.

A previous version of this patch made trim_pages() trim trailing
unused pages from skbs with some paged data, but this actually
caused a barely measurable slowdown.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> (use netdev_priv)
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 0196a0d..985271a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -82,6 +82,16 @@ static void give_a_page(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct 
page *page)
 	vi->pages = page;
 }
 
+static void trim_pages(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
+		give_a_page(vi, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+	skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = 0;
+	skb->data_len = 0;
+}
+
 static struct page *get_a_page(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct page *p = vi->pages;
@@ -121,14 +131,8 @@ static void receive_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct 
sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 	len -= sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr);
 
-	if (len <= MAX_PACKET_LEN) {
-		unsigned int i;
-
-		for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
-			give_a_page(dev->priv, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
-		skb->data_len = 0;
-		skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = 0;
-	}
+	if (len <= MAX_PACKET_LEN)
+		trim_pages(netdev_priv(dev), skb);
 
 	err = pskb_trim(skb, len);
 	if (err) {
@@ -232,6 +236,7 @@ static void try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi)
 		err = vi->rvq->vq_ops->add_buf(vi->rvq, sg, 0, num, skb);
 		if (err) {
 			skb_unlink(skb, &vi->recv);
+			trim_pages(vi, skb);
 			kfree_skb(skb);
 			break;
 		}
.