From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <pabeni@redhat.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/5] page_pool: update document about frag API
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:40:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230613214041.1c29a357@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230612130256.4572-6-linyunsheng@huawei.com>
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:02:56 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> +2. page_pool_alloc_frag(): allocate memory with page splitting when driver knows
> + that the memory it need is always smaller than or equal to half of the page
> + allocated from page pool. Page splitting enables memory saving and thus avoid
> + TLB/cache miss for data access, but there also is some cost to implement page
> + splitting, mainly some cache line dirtying/bouncing for 'struct page' and
> + atomic operation for page->pp_frag_count.
> +
> +3. page_pool_alloc(): allocate memory with or without page splitting depending
> + on the requested memory size when driver doesn't know the size of memory it
> + need beforehand. It is a mix of the above two case, so it is a wrapper of the
> + above API to simplify driver's interface for memory allocation with least
> + memory utilization and performance penalty.
Seems like the semantics of page_pool_alloc() are always better than
page_pool_alloc_frag(). Is there a reason to keep these two separate?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-14 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-12 13:02 [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] introduce page_pool_alloc() API Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-12 13:02 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/5] page_pool: frag API support for 32-bit arch with 64-bit DMA Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-13 13:30 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-14 3:36 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 3:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-14 10:52 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-14 12:15 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 12:42 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-14 4:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-14 11:42 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 17:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 7:29 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-12 13:02 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] page_pool: unify frag_count handling in page_pool_is_last_frag() Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 4:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-14 11:55 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-12 13:02 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/5] page_pool: introduce page_pool_alloc() API Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-13 13:08 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-13 13:11 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-14 3:17 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-12 13:02 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 17:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 7:17 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-15 16:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 18:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2023-06-16 12:20 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-16 15:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2023-06-16 18:59 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-16 19:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 20:42 ` Memory providers multiplexing (Was: [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-19 18:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-20 15:12 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-20 15:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-30 2:27 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 4:20 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 6:22 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 14:45 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 17:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2023-07-03 17:23 ` David Ahern
2023-07-06 1:19 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 17:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2023-07-03 17:25 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 21:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-06 1:17 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 17:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-10 23:02 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 23:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 0:45 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 13:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 17:24 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 4:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-11 4:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 5:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-11 12:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 16:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 16:20 ` David Ahern
2023-07-11 16:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 17:06 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 20:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 21:39 ` David Ahern
2023-07-12 3:42 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 7:55 ` Christian König
2023-07-12 13:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-12 13:35 ` Christian König
2023-07-12 22:41 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 13:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-12 20:16 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 23:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-13 7:56 ` Christian König
2023-07-14 14:55 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-14 15:18 ` David Ahern
2023-07-17 2:05 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-17 3:08 ` David Ahern
2023-07-14 15:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-17 1:53 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-24 14:56 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-07-24 16:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-25 4:04 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-26 17:36 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-07-11 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 17:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 18:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 20:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 23:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 6:52 ` Dan Williams
2023-07-06 16:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-17 12:19 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-15 13:59 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-06-12 13:02 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/5] page_pool: update document about frag API Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 4:40 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-14 12:04 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-14 16:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 6:49 ` Yunsheng Lin
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