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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>2014-12-09 19:40:49 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-12-10 13:31:57 -0500
commitfd11a83dd3630ec6a60f8a702446532c5c7e1991 (patch)
tree4ab4c6966cfbd5ff9bb437592cf6e59c4ef6859d /net/core/skbuff.c
parentffde7328a36d16e626bae8468571858d71cd010b (diff)
net: Pull out core bits of __netdev_alloc_skb and add __napi_alloc_skb
This change pulls the core functionality out of __netdev_alloc_skb and places them in a new function named __alloc_rx_skb. The reason for doing this is to make these bits accessible to a new function __napi_alloc_skb. In addition __alloc_rx_skb now has a new flags value that is used to determine which page frag pool to allocate from. If the SKB_ALLOC_NAPI flag is set then the NAPI pool is used. The advantage of this is that we do not have to use local_irq_save/restore when accessing the NAPI pool from NAPI context. In my test setup I saw at least 11ns of savings using the napi_alloc_skb function versus the netdev_alloc_skb function, most of this being due to the fact that we didn't have to call local_irq_save/restore. The main use case for napi_alloc_skb would be for things such as copybreak or page fragment based receive paths where an skb is allocated after the data has been received instead of before. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c74
1 files changed, 67 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 56ed17cd2151..ae13ef6b3ea7 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -444,10 +444,13 @@ void *napi_alloc_frag(unsigned int fragsz)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_alloc_frag);
/**
- * __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
- * @dev: network device to receive on
+ * __alloc_rx_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx
* @length: length to allocate
* @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb
+ * @flags: If SKB_ALLOC_RX is set, __GFP_MEMALLOC will be used for
+ * allocations in case we have to fallback to __alloc_skb()
+ * If SKB_ALLOC_NAPI is set, page fragment will be allocated
+ * from napi_cache instead of netdev_cache.
*
* Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
* buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
@@ -456,11 +459,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_alloc_frag);
*
* %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
*/
-struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
- unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+static struct sk_buff *__alloc_rx_skb(unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ int flags)
{
struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
- unsigned int fragsz = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(length + NET_SKB_PAD) +
+ unsigned int fragsz = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(length) +
SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
if (fragsz <= PAGE_SIZE && !(gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | GFP_DMA))) {
@@ -469,7 +472,9 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
if (sk_memalloc_socks())
gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
- data = __netdev_alloc_frag(fragsz, gfp_mask);
+ data = (flags & SKB_ALLOC_NAPI) ?
+ __napi_alloc_frag(fragsz, gfp_mask) :
+ __netdev_alloc_frag(fragsz, gfp_mask);
if (likely(data)) {
skb = build_skb(data, fragsz);
@@ -477,17 +482,72 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
put_page(virt_to_head_page(data));
}
} else {
- skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask,
+ skb = __alloc_skb(length, gfp_mask,
SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
}
+ return skb;
+}
+
+/**
+ * __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
+ * @dev: network device to receive on
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb
+ *
+ * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
+ * buffer has NET_SKB_PAD headroom built in. Users should allocate
+ * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
+ * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ length += NET_SKB_PAD;
+ skb = __alloc_rx_skb(length, gfp_mask, 0);
+
if (likely(skb)) {
skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
skb->dev = dev;
}
+
return skb;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
+/**
+ * __napi_alloc_skb - allocate skbuff for rx in a specific NAPI instance
+ * @napi: napi instance this buffer was allocated for
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb and alloc_pages
+ *
+ * Allocate a new sk_buff for use in NAPI receive. This buffer will
+ * attempt to allocate the head from a special reserved region used
+ * only for NAPI Rx allocation. By doing this we can save several
+ * CPU cycles by avoiding having to disable and re-enable IRQs.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ length += NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN;
+ skb = __alloc_rx_skb(length, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_NAPI);
+
+ if (likely(skb)) {
+ skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN);
+ skb->dev = napi->dev;
+ }
+
+ return skb;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__napi_alloc_skb);
+
void skb_add_rx_frag(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, struct page *page, int off,
int size, unsigned int truesize)
{