[PATCH net-next] netdev: expose page pool order via netlink

[PATCH net-next] netdev: expose page pool order via netlink

[Dragos Tatulea]

Add a new 'order' attribute to the page-pool netlink interface to expose
the page pool's allocation order (power of 2 page count).

This adds observability for the latest io_uring rx-buf-len configuration
for high order pages for zerocopy rx.

The order is added to the queue attribute instead of the nested io_uring
attribute as it can be useful to see high order page_pools for other
cases as well.

Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Yael Chemla <ychemla@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>

---
 Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 5 +++++
 include/uapi/linux/netdev.h             | 1 +
 net/core/page_pool_user.c               | 3 +++
 tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h       | 1 +
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
index 49862b666d7d..6d8032b64bbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ attribute-sets:
         doc: io-uring memory provider information.
         type: nest
         nested-attributes: io-uring-provider-info
+      -
+        name: order
+        type: u32
+        doc: Page pool order (power of 2 page count per allocation).
   -
     name: page-pool-info
     subset-of: page-pool
@@ -648,6 +652,7 @@ operations:
             - detach-time
             - dmabuf
             - io-uring
+            - order
       dump:
         request:
           attributes:
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h b/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
index 7df1056a35fd..4c2e6df2e954 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ enum {
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_DETACH_TIME,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_DMABUF,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_IO_URING,
+	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_ORDER,
 
 	__NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX = (__NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX - 1)
diff --git a/net/core/page_pool_user.c b/net/core/page_pool_user.c
index ef4261c0e8ea..9536b79074bb 100644
--- a/net/core/page_pool_user.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool_user.c
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ page_pool_nl_fill(struct sk_buff *rsp, const struct page_pool *pool,
 	    nla_put_uint(rsp, NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_NAPI_ID, napi_id))
 		goto err_cancel;
 
+	if (nla_put_u32(rsp, NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_ORDER, pool->p.order))
+		goto err_cancel;
+
 	inflight = page_pool_inflight(pool, false);
 	refsz =	PAGE_SIZE << pool->p.order;
 	if (nla_put_uint(rsp, NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_INFLIGHT, inflight) ||
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
index 7df1056a35fd..4c2e6df2e954 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ enum {
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_DETACH_TIME,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_DMABUF,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_IO_URING,
+	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_ORDER,
 
 	__NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX,
 	NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX = (__NETDEV_A_PAGE_POOL_MAX - 1)
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH net-next] netdev: expose page pool order via netlink

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:12:32 +0300 Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> Add a new 'order' attribute to the page-pool netlink interface to expose
> the page pool's allocation order (power of 2 page count).
> 
> This adds observability for the latest io_uring rx-buf-len configuration
> for high order pages for zerocopy rx.
> 
> The order is added to the queue attribute instead of the nested io_uring
> attribute as it can be useful to see high order page_pools for other
> cases as well.

Memory providers have a callback to populate their own attributes
(nl_fill). Sounds like we should expose rx_buf_len over that thing
instead of exposing the order which is more of a kernel internal?

Also please add checking the new attr to some selftest.

Re: [PATCH net-next] netdev: expose page pool order via netlink

[Dragos Tatulea]

On 11.06.26 22:18, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:12:32 +0300 Dragos Tatulea wrote:
>> Add a new 'order' attribute to the page-pool netlink interface to expose
>> the page pool's allocation order (power of 2 page count).
>>
>> This adds observability for the latest io_uring rx-buf-len configuration
>> for high order pages for zerocopy rx.
>>
>> The order is added to the queue attribute instead of the nested io_uring
>> attribute as it can be useful to see high order page_pools for other
>> cases as well.
> 
> Memory providers have a callback to populate their own attributes
> (nl_fill). Sounds like we should expose rx_buf_len over that thing
> instead of exposing the order which is more of a kernel internal?
> 
Sounds good. Will add it in v2.

> Also please add checking the new attr to some selftest.
Right. I added code in test_zcrx_large_chunks to check this.
I lost it on the way a couple of weeks ago and forgot about it.
Will add it back.

Thanks,
Dragos