From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>, "Keir Fraser" <keirf@google.com>,
"Steven Moreland" <smoreland@google.com>,
"Frederick Mayle" <fmayle@google.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Stefano Garzarella" <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:15:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250625131543.5155-6-will@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250625131543.5155-1-will@kernel.org>
When transmitting a vsock packet, virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() calls
virtio_transport_alloc_skb() to allocate and fill SKBs with the transmit
data. Unfortunately, these are always linear allocations and can
therefore result in significant pressure on kmalloc() considering that
the maximum packet size (VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE +
VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM) is a little over 64KiB, resulting in a 128KiB
allocation for each packet.
Rework the vsock SKB allocation so that, for sizes with page order
greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, a nonlinear SKB is allocated
instead with the packet header in the SKB and the transmit data in the
fragments.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
index 1b5d9896edae..424eb69e84f9 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ static int virtio_transport_fill_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
return __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(info->msg, NULL, skb,
&info->msg->msg_iter, len, NULL);
- return memcpy_from_msg(skb_put(skb, len), info->msg, len);
+ virtio_vsock_skb_put(skb);
+ return skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(skb, 0, &info->msg->msg_iter, len);
}
static void virtio_transport_init_hdr(struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -261,7 +262,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *virtio_transport_alloc_skb(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *
if (!zcopy)
skb_len += payload_len;
- skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (skb_len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
+ skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb_with_frags(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ else
+ skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
if (!skb)
return NULL;
--
2.50.0.714.g196bf9f422-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-25 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-25 13:15 [PATCH 0/5] vsock/virtio: SKB allocation improvements Will Deacon
2025-06-25 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] vhost/vsock: Avoid allocating arbitrarily-sized SKBs Will Deacon
2025-06-27 10:36 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-30 12:51 ` Will Deacon
2025-07-01 10:37 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-25 13:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] vsock/virtio: Resize receive buffers so that each SKB fits in a page Will Deacon
2025-06-27 10:41 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-30 13:06 ` Will Deacon
2025-06-25 13:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large receive buffers Will Deacon
2025-06-27 10:45 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-30 14:20 ` Will Deacon
2025-07-01 10:44 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-07-01 13:52 ` Will Deacon
2025-06-25 13:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] vsock/virtio: Rename virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() to virtio_vsock_skb_put() Will Deacon
2025-06-27 10:46 ` Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-25 13:15 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2025-06-27 10:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] vhost/vsock: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-30 14:21 ` Will Deacon
2025-06-27 10:51 ` [PATCH 0/5] vsock/virtio: SKB allocation improvements Stefano Garzarella
2025-06-30 12:50 ` Will Deacon
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