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Message-ID: <e1e7ebcf-8c7a-8ef4-c48a-3ddfa05d22bb@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:37:53 +0800
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To: Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>
CC: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ayush Sawal
	<ayush.sawal@...lsio.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Willem de
 Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Juri
 Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, Steven Rostedt
	<rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman
	<mgorman@...e.de>, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>, Valentin
 Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>, Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>,
	Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
	<mptcp@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 13/15] net: replace page_frag with
 page_frag_cache

On 2024/4/17 5:40, Mat Martineau wrote:
...

> I wasn't concerned as much about the direct cost of the inlined page_frag_alloc_commit() helper, it was that we could make fewer prepare calls if the commit was deferred as long as possible. As we discussed above, I see now that the prepare is not expensive when there is more space available in the current frag.
> 
>> Maybe what we could do is to do the prepare in the inline
>> helper instead of a function when cache is enough, so that
>> we can avoid a function call as the old code does, as an
>> inlined function requires less overhead and is generally
>> faster than a function call.
>>
>> But that requires more refactoring, as this patchset is bigger
>> enough now, I guess we try it later if it is possible.
> 
> A more generic (possible) optimization would be to inline some of page_frag_cache_refill(), but I'm not sure the code size tradeoff is worth it - would have to collect some data to find out for sure!

In my arm64 system, It seems inlining some of page_frag_cache_refill() results
in smaller kernel code size as below, has not done the performance test yet, but
the smaller code size seems odd here.

Without this patchset:
linyunsheng@...ntu:~/ksize$ ./ksize.sh
Linux Kernel                          total |       text       data        bss
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmlinux                            51974159 |   32238573   19087890     647696

With this patchset:
linyunsheng@...ntu:~/ksize$ ./ksize.sh
Linux Kernel                          total |       text       data        bss
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmlinux                            51970078 |   32234468   19087914     647696


With this patchset and below patch inlining some of page_frag_cache_refill():
linyunsheng@...ntu:~/ksize$ ./ksize.sh
Linux Kernel                          total |       text       data        bss
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmlinux                            51966078 |   32230468   19087914     647696




diff --git a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
index 529e7c040dad..3e1de20c8146 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
@@ -60,8 +60,33 @@ static inline bool page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc(struct page_frag_cache *nc)

 void page_frag_cache_drain(struct page_frag_cache *nc);
 void __page_frag_cache_drain(struct page *page, unsigned int count);
-void *page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc, unsigned int fragsz,
-                            gfp_t gfp_mask);
+void *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+void *page_frag_cache_flush(struct page_frag_cache *nc, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
+static inline void *page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
+                                          unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+       unsigned long size_mask;
+       void *va;
+
+       if (unlikely(!nc->va)) {
+               va = __page_frag_cache_refill(nc, gfp_mask);
+               if (likely(va))
+                       return va;
+       }
+
+#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
+       /* if size can vary use size else just use PAGE_SIZE */
+       size_mask = nc->size_mask;
+#else
+       size_mask = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
+#endif
+
+       if (unlikely(nc->offset + fragsz > (size_mask + 1)))
+               return page_frag_cache_flush(nc, gfp_mask);
+
+       return (void *)((unsigned long)nc->va & ~size_mask);
+}

 /**
  * page_frag_alloc_va() - Alloc a page fragment.
diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index 8b1d35aafcc1..74f643d472fb 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/page_frag_cache.h>
 #include "internal.h"

-static bool __page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
-                                    gfp_t gfp_mask)
+void *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
        struct page *page = NULL;
        gfp_t gfp = gfp_mask;
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ static bool __page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,

        if (unlikely(!page)) {
                nc->va = NULL;
-               return false;
+               return NULL;
        }

        nc->va = page_address(page);
@@ -57,8 +56,9 @@ static bool __page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,

        nc->pfmemalloc = page_is_pfmemalloc(page);
        nc->offset = 0;
-       return true;
+       return nc->va;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_frag_cache_refill);

 /**
  * page_frag_cache_drain - Drain the current page from page_frag cache.
@@ -83,20 +83,12 @@ void __page_frag_cache_drain(struct page *page, unsigned int count)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_frag_cache_drain);

-void *page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc, unsigned int fragsz,
-                            gfp_t gfp_mask)
+void *page_frag_cache_flush(struct page_frag_cache *nc, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
        unsigned long size_mask;
-       unsigned int offset;
        struct page *page;
        void *va;

-       if (unlikely(!nc->va)) {
-refill:
-               if (!__page_frag_cache_refill(nc, gfp_mask))
-                       return NULL;
-       }
-
 #if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
        /* if size can vary use size else just use PAGE_SIZE */
        size_mask = nc->size_mask;
@@ -105,41 +97,23 @@ void *page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc, unsigned int fragsz,
 #endif

        va = (void *)((unsigned long)nc->va & ~size_mask);
-       offset = nc->offset;
-
-       if (unlikely(offset + fragsz > (size_mask + 1))) {
-               page = virt_to_page(va);
-
-               if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias & size_mask))
-                       goto refill;
-
-               if (unlikely(nc->pfmemalloc)) {
-                       free_unref_page(page, compound_order(page));
-                       goto refill;
-               }
-
-               /* OK, page count is 0, we can safely set it */
-               set_page_count(page, size_mask);
-               nc->pagecnt_bias |= size_mask;
-
-               nc->offset = 0;
-               if (unlikely(fragsz > (size_mask + 1))) {
-                       /*
-                        * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
-                        * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
-                        * enough to satisfy the request, this may
-                        * happen in low memory conditions.
-                        * We don't release the cache page because
-                        * it could make memory pressure worse
-                        * so we simply return NULL here.
-                        */
-                       return NULL;
-               }
+       page = virt_to_page(va);
+       if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias & size_mask))
+               return __page_frag_cache_refill(nc, gfp_mask);
+
+       if (unlikely(nc->pfmemalloc)) {
+               free_unref_page(page, compound_order(page));
+               return __page_frag_cache_refill(nc, gfp_mask);
        }

+       /* OK, page count is 0, we can safely set it */
+       set_page_count(page, size_mask);
+       nc->pagecnt_bias |= size_mask;
+       nc->offset = 0;
+
        return va;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_frag_cache_refill);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_frag_cache_flush);

 /*
  * Frees a page fragment allocated out of either a compound or order 0 page.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mat
> 
> .
> 

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