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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb()
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:43:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604194330.GA1648@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338838185.2760.1899.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:16 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > Yes but if a tcp socket then hangs on, on one of the fragments,
> > while the other has been freed, the whole page is still
> > never reused, right?
> > 
> > Doesn't this mean truesize should be 4K?
> > 
> 
> Yes, or more exactly PAGE_SIZE, but then performance would really go
> down on machines with 64KB pages.
> Maybe we should make the whole frag
> head idea enabled only for PAGE_SIZE=4096.
> 
> Not sure we want to track precise truesize, as the minimum truesize is
> SKB_DATA_ALIGN(length + NET_SKB_PAD) + SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct
> skb_shared_info)) (64 + 64 + 320) = 448
> 
> Its not like buggy drivers that used truesize = length
> 
> 

Interesting. But where's the threshold?

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-17 12:18 Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets' Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 15:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 15:43   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 15:56     ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 16:33       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 16:40         ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 16:47           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 16:49           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 17:22             ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 17:34             ` [PATCH net-next] net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb() Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 17:45               ` Willy Tarreau
2012-06-04 12:39                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 12:44                   ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 19:53               ` David Miller
2012-05-18  4:41                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 12:37               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 13:06                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 13:41                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 14:01                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 14:09                       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 14:17                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 15:01                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 17:20                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 17:44                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 18:16                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:24                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:48                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:56                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 21:20                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-05  2:50                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 18:16                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 19:29                             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:43                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-06-04 19:52                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 21:54                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-05  2:46                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-06-04 19:56                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-04 20:05                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 18:38       ` Stable regression with 'tcp: allow splice() to build full TSO packets' Ben Hutchings
2012-05-17 19:55   ` David Miller
2012-05-17 20:04     ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 20:07       ` David Miller
2012-05-17 20:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:14   ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 21:40     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:50       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 21:57         ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:01         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:10           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:16           ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:22             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:24               ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:25                 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 22:30                   ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:35                     ` David Miller
2012-05-17 22:49                       ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:27               ` Joe Perches
2012-05-17 21:54       ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 21:47     ` Willy Tarreau
2012-05-17 22:14     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-17 22:29       ` Willy Tarreau

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