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Revert "net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"

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After the previous commit is finally safe to revert commit dbae2b0628
("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"): do it here.

The intended goal of such change was to counter a performance regression
introduced by commit 3226b158e6 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize
under-estimation for tiny skbs").

Unfortunately, the blamed commit introduces another regression for the
virtio_net driver. Such a driver calls napi_alloc_skb() with a tiny
size, so that the whole head frag could fit a 512-byte block.

The single page frag cache uses a 1K fragment for such allocation, and
the additional overhead, under small UDP packets flood, makes the page
allocator a bottleneck.

Thanks to commit bf9f1baa27 ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for
typical/small skb->head"), this revert does not re-introduce the
original regression. Actually, in the relevant test on top of this
revert, I measure a small but noticeable positive delta, just above
noise level.

The revert itself required some additional mangling due to recent updates
in the affected code.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: dbae2b0628 ("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Paolo Abeni
2025-02-18 19:29:40 +01:00
parent 14ad6ed30a
commit 6bc7e4eb04
3 changed files with 22 additions and 100 deletions
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net/core/dev.c
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@@ -6991,6 +6991,23 @@ netif_napi_dev_list_add(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi)
list_add_rcu(&napi->dev_list, higher); /* adds after higher */
}
/* Double check that napi_get_frags() allocates skbs with
* skb->head being backed by slab, not a page fragment.
* This is to make sure bug fixed in 3226b158e67c
* ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs")
* does not accidentally come back.
*/
static void napi_get_frags_check(struct napi_struct *napi)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
local_bh_disable();
skb = napi_get_frags(napi);
WARN_ON_ONCE(skb && skb->head_frag);
napi_free_frags(napi);
local_bh_enable();
}
void netif_napi_add_weight_locked(struct net_device *dev,
struct napi_struct *napi,
int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int),