From: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Luigi Rizzo <rizzo.unipi@gmail.com>,
Brian Vazquez <brianvv@google.com>,
Joshua Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>,
Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH iwl-next v2 0/2] libeth, idpf: use GFP_KERNEL for the initial Rx ring fill
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:06:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019210604.2433620-1-lrizzo@google.com> (raw)
libeth_rx_alloc() always allocates with GFP_ATOMIC, including when a
driver fills its Rx rings at open or on queue reconfiguration. That
fill runs in process context, right after page_pool_create() and before
the queues' NAPI is enabled, so it may sleep, and GFP_ATOMIC is
needlessly restrictive there: it can neither reclaim nor compact, while
the initial fill can allocate tens of thousands of buffers across all
queues.
Patch 1 adds libeth_rx_alloc_gfp() taking a gfp_t parameter and turns
libeth_rx_alloc() into its GFP_ATOMIC wrapper.
Patch 2 switches idpf's initial Rx ring fill (both splitq and singleq)
to GFP_KERNEL.
v2:
- split into two patches (libeth helper and idpf consumer)
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261016151835.2500807-1-lrizzo@google.com/
Luigi Rizzo (2):
libeth: add libeth_rx_alloc_gfp() to specify allocation flags
idpf: use GFP_KERNEL for the initial Rx ring fill
.../ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c | 7 +++---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c | 9 +++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h | 2 +-
include/net/libeth/rx.h | 23 +++++++++++++++----
4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--
2.56.0.212.g129ede20d9-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 21:06 Luigi Rizzo [this message]
2026-10-19 21:06 ` [PATCH iwl-next v2 1/2] libeth: add libeth_rx_alloc_gfp() to specify allocation flags Luigi Rizzo
2026-10-21 10:42 ` Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-10-23 13:34 ` Alexander Lobakin
2026-10-23 13:52 ` Luigi Rizzo
2026-10-19 21:06 ` [PATCH iwl-next v2 2/2] idpf: use GFP_KERNEL for the initial Rx ring fill Luigi Rizzo
2026-10-21 10:43 ` Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-10-21 14:57 ` [PATCH iwl-next v2 0/2] libeth, " Alexander Lobakin
2026-10-21 15:50 ` Luigi Rizzo
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