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
Subject: [PATCH iwl-next] libeth, idpf: use GFP_KERNEL for the initial Rx ring fill
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:18:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016151835.2500807-1-lrizzo@google.com> (raw)
libeth_rx_alloc() always allocates with GFP_ATOMIC, including when idpf
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.
Add libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(), which takes the allocation flags, and make
libeth_rx_alloc() its GFP_ATOMIC wrapper. Use GFP_KERNEL for the initial
fill in idpf.
Signed-off-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com>
---
.../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(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c
index e3ddf18dcbf51..d623e4ab8511f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_singleq_txrx.c
@@ -885,11 +885,12 @@ static void idpf_rx_buf_hw_update(struct idpf_rx_queue *rxq, u32 val)
* idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all - Replace used receive buffers
* @rx_q: queue for which the hw buffers are allocated
* @cleaned_count: number of buffers to replace
+ * @gfp: GFP_KERNEL for the initial fill, GFP_ATOMIC from NAPI
*
* Returns false if all allocations were successful, true if any fail
*/
bool idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(struct idpf_rx_queue *rx_q,
- u16 cleaned_count)
+ u16 cleaned_count, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct virtchnl2_singleq_rx_buf_desc *desc;
const struct libeth_fq_fp fq = {
@@ -908,7 +909,7 @@ bool idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(struct idpf_rx_queue *rx_q,
do {
dma_addr_t addr;
- addr = libeth_rx_alloc(&fq, nta);
+ addr = libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(&fq, nta, gfp);
if (addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)
break;
@@ -1095,7 +1096,7 @@ static int idpf_rx_singleq_clean(struct idpf_rx_queue *rx_q, int budget)
page_pool_nid_changed(rx_q->pp, numa_mem_id());
if (cleaned_count)
- idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(rx_q, cleaned_count);
+ idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(rx_q, cleaned_count, GFP_ATOMIC);
u64_stats_update_begin(&rx_q->stats_sync);
u64_stats_add(&rx_q->q_stats.packets, rs.packets);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
index 4311ffa30bb18..b1127ab48ef3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
@@ -600,6 +600,9 @@ static void idpf_post_buf_refill(struct idpf_sw_queue *refillq, u16 buf_id)
* @bufq: buffer queue to post to
* @buf_id: buffer id to post
*
+ * Only used for the initial fill, from process context, so it allocates
+ * with GFP_KERNEL.
+ *
* Return: %false if buffer could not be allocated, %true otherwise.
*/
static bool idpf_rx_post_buf_desc(struct idpf_buf_queue *bufq, u16 buf_id)
@@ -618,7 +621,7 @@ static bool idpf_rx_post_buf_desc(struct idpf_buf_queue *bufq, u16 buf_id)
fq.fqes = bufq->hdr_buf;
fq.truesize = bufq->hdr_truesize;
- addr = libeth_rx_alloc(&fq, buf_id);
+ addr = libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(&fq, buf_id, GFP_KERNEL);
if (addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)
return false;
@@ -629,7 +632,7 @@ static bool idpf_rx_post_buf_desc(struct idpf_buf_queue *bufq, u16 buf_id)
fq.fqes = bufq->buf;
fq.truesize = bufq->truesize;
- addr = libeth_rx_alloc(&fq, buf_id);
+ addr = libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(&fq, buf_id, GFP_KERNEL);
if (addr == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR)
return false;
@@ -675,7 +678,7 @@ static bool idpf_rx_post_init_bufs(struct idpf_buf_queue *bufq,
*/
static int idpf_rx_buf_alloc_singleq(struct idpf_rx_queue *rxq)
{
- if (idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(rxq, rxq->desc_count - 1))
+ if (idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(rxq, rxq->desc_count - 1, GFP_KERNEL))
goto err;
return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
index 93547597efd2a..e27438c78ec79 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ netdev_tx_t idpf_tx_singleq_frame(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct idpf_tx_queue *tx_q);
netdev_tx_t idpf_tx_start(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev);
bool idpf_rx_singleq_buf_hw_alloc_all(struct idpf_rx_queue *rxq,
- u16 cleaned_count);
+ u16 cleaned_count, gfp_t gfp);
bool idpf_rx_process_skb_fields(struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct libeth_xdp_buff *xdp,
struct libeth_rq_napi_stats *rs);
diff --git a/include/net/libeth/rx.h b/include/net/libeth/rx.h
index 0e736846c5e8a..14a528ea8a075 100644
--- a/include/net/libeth/rx.h
+++ b/include/net/libeth/rx.h
@@ -96,20 +96,23 @@ int libeth_rx_fq_create(struct libeth_fq *fq, void *napi_dev);
void libeth_rx_fq_destroy(struct libeth_fq *fq);
/**
- * libeth_rx_alloc - allocate a new Rx buffer
+ * libeth_rx_alloc_gfp - allocate a new Rx buffer
* @fq: fill queue to allocate for
* @i: index of the buffer within the queue
+ * @gfp: allocation flags: GFP_KERNEL where the caller may sleep (e.g. the
+ * initial fill of the ring), GFP_ATOMIC from NAPI
*
* Return: DMA address to be passed to HW for Rx on successful allocation,
* ```DMA_MAPPING_ERROR``` otherwise.
*/
-static inline dma_addr_t libeth_rx_alloc(const struct libeth_fq_fp *fq, u32 i)
+static inline dma_addr_t libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(const struct libeth_fq_fp *fq,
+ u32 i, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct libeth_fqe *buf = &fq->fqes[i];
buf->truesize = fq->truesize;
- buf->netmem = page_pool_dev_alloc_netmem(fq->pp, &buf->offset,
- &buf->truesize);
+ buf->netmem = page_pool_alloc_netmem(fq->pp, &buf->offset,
+ &buf->truesize, gfp | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (unlikely(!buf->netmem))
return DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
@@ -117,6 +120,18 @@ static inline dma_addr_t libeth_rx_alloc(const struct libeth_fq_fp *fq, u32 i)
fq->pp->p.offset;
}
+/**
+ * libeth_rx_alloc - allocate a new Rx buffer from NAPI context
+ * @fq: fill queue to allocate for
+ * @i: index of the buffer within the queue
+ *
+ * Return: as libeth_rx_alloc_gfp().
+ */
+static inline dma_addr_t libeth_rx_alloc(const struct libeth_fq_fp *fq, u32 i)
+{
+ return libeth_rx_alloc_gfp(fq, i, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
void libeth_rx_recycle_slow(netmem_ref netmem);
/**
--
2.56.0.176.g3575e65682-goog
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