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  • * [PATCH v2 0/5] swiotlb: avoid swiotlb copy on network sockets
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    @ 2026-08-24 15:29 ` Luigi Rizzo
      2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] swiotlb: enforce pool nareas and nslabs invariants Luigi Rizzo
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      1 sibling, 7 replies; 18+ messages in thread
    From: Luigi Rizzo @ 2026-08-24 15:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Marek Szyprowski, Robin Murphy, Willem de Bruijn,
    	Kuniyuki Iwashima, David S . Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
    	Paolo Abeni, Luigi Rizzo, Luigi Rizzo
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Dragos Tatulea, Rafael J . Wysocki,
    	Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, netdev, linux-mm, iommu,
    	driver-core, linux-kernel
    
    The use of swiotlb, common in Confidential Computing, causes an extra
    data copy on each I/O. Focusing on network sockets:
    - on tx, the copy has a high chance of happening in the tx softirq handler
      (especially with greedy senders where the device queue is often full)
    - on rx, it is guaranteed to happen in the rx softirq handler.
    Thus, on top of the copy cost, swiotlb concentrates the overhead on an
    already constrained resource (CPUs processing network interrupts).
    
    Reduce or remove the extra copy by conditionally allocating socket buffers
    directly from the swiotlb buffer pool.
    
    The feature is controlled by runtime parameters to set the percentage of 
    swiotlb buffers that can be used for this purpose. This avoids stranding
    the entire swiotlb pool in socket buffers.
    
    The implementation is made of four main parts:
    - introduce a swiotlb page allocator that can be used instead of
      regular pages, and teach __free_frozen_pages(), free_unref_folio()
      how to handle them
    - dynamically track the leaf device for each tx network socket,
      so we can tell at copy_from_user() time whether we need to use
      swiotlb for this socket
    - modify skb_page_frag_refill() to allocate from swiotlb if needed.
      This implements the copy elision for the transmit path
    - modify __page_pool_alloc_page_order() to allocate from swiotlb if needed.
      This implements the copy elision for the receive path.
    
    The savings are especially visible with fewer queues. In synthetic
    benchmarks, senders with 1-2 queues would cap around 50Gbps with
    conventional swiotlb, and reach over 170Gbps with the feature enabled.
    
    OPEN ISSUES
    
    Currently the swiotlb allocator looks for free slots using an
    approximately linear scan of each pool (with some hints to likely
    candidates) and then does a linear scan of subsequent pools.
    This works extremely well when the number of pools matches the number of
    CPUs, and there is plenty of memory available. In fact, it is almost
    unbeatable by any more complex strategy.
    
    Under high load or buffer fragmentation, a CPU might repeatedly do a
    full scan of its starting pool before finding a suitable candidate.
    Even worse, with multiple tx/rx queues, what happens is that multiple CPUs
    will trail each other on the same sequence of pools. The effect is that
    some allocations will end up costing O(100us) and more.
    
    I have tried to implement two improvements:
    - a buddy allocator on top of each pool, so to make it quicker to find a
      candidate of the requested size
    - make each CPU use a different sequence to explore other pools in case
      one is full, so they will not end up queueing one after the other
    While they are very effective on the tails, for low load scenarios the
    current linear allocators is better. Thus this will take more
    investigation.
    
    ---
    v1 -> v2:
    
    - split components into separate commits
    - simplified allocator, no need for a new page type
    - many code cleanups
    - also implement the rx side
    
    Luigi Rizzo (5):
      swiotlb: enforce pool nareas and nslabs invariants
      swiotlb/mm: Implement SWIOTLB nocopy page allocator
      net/swiotlb: Track bounce device per socket
      net: Divert socket allocations to SWIOTLB for nocopy TX
      swiotlb: Implement RX nocopy with fast recycling eviction
    
     drivers/base/core.c       |   1 +
     drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c |   9 +-
     include/linux/netdevice.h |  21 +++
     include/linux/skbuff.h    |   7 +-
     include/linux/swiotlb.h   |  63 ++++++++
     include/net/sock.h        |  46 ++++++
     kernel/dma/direct.h       |  11 ++
     kernel/dma/swiotlb.c      | 296 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
     mm/page_alloc.c           |  61 +++++++-
     net/core/page_pool.c      |  25 +++-
     net/core/sock.c           | 101 +++++++++++--
     11 files changed, 617 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
    
    -- 
    2.55.0.766.g2966f0265a-goog
    
    
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    2026-06-16 11:06     ` [PATCH] swiotlb: avoid double copy with swiotlb on tx socket Mostafa Saleh
    2026-08-24  8:59       ` Dragos Tatulea
    2026-08-24 15:32         ` Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 17:39           ` Dragos Tatulea
    2026-08-25 16:33         ` Mostafa Saleh
    2026-08-24 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] swiotlb: avoid swiotlb copy on network sockets Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] swiotlb: enforce pool nareas and nslabs invariants Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] swiotlb/mm: Implement SWIOTLB nocopy page allocator Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 16:05     ` Robin Murphy
    2026-08-24 16:30       ` Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 17:38         ` Dragos Tatulea
    2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] net/swiotlb: Track bounce device per socket Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] net: Divert socket allocations to SWIOTLB for nocopy TX Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 16:32     ` Randy Dunlap
    2026-08-24 15:29   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] swiotlb: Implement RX nocopy with fast recycling eviction Luigi Rizzo
    2026-08-24 17:38     ` Dragos Tatulea
    2026-08-24 17:37   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] swiotlb: avoid swiotlb copy on network sockets Dragos Tatulea
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