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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Refactor netdev page frags and move them into mm/
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 19:17:58 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150510.191758.2130017622255857830.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150507035558.1873.52664.stgit@ahduyck-vm-fedora22>

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 21:11:34 -0700

> This patch series addresses several things.
> 
> First I found an issue in the performance of the pfmemalloc check from
> build_skb.  To work around it I have provided a cached copy of pfmemalloc
> to be used in __netdev_alloc_skb and __napi_alloc_skb.
> 
> Second I moved the page fragment allocation logic into the mm tree and
> added functionality for freeing page fragments.  I had to fix igb before I
> could do this as it was using a reference to NETDEV_FRAG_PAGE_MAX_SIZE
> incorrectly.
> 
> Finally I went through and replaced all of the duplicate code that was
> calling put_page and replaced it with calls to skb_free_frag.
> 
> With these changes in place a simple receive and drop test increased from a
> packet rate of 8.9Mpps to 9.8Mpps.  The gains breakdown as follows:
> 
> 8.9Mpps	Before			9.8Mpps	After
> ------------------------	------------------------
> 7.8%	put_compound_page	9.1%	__free_page_frag
> 3.9%	skb_free_head
> 1.1%	put_page
> 
> 4.9%	build_skb		3.8%	__napi_alloc_skb
> 2.5%	__alloc_rx_skb
> 1.9%	__napi_alloc_skb

I like this series, but again I need to see feedback from some
mm folks before I can consider applying it.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07  4:11 [PATCH 00/10] Refactor netdev page frags and move them into mm/ Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:11 ` [PATCH 01/10] net: Use cached copy of pfmemalloc to avoid accessing page Alexander Duyck
2015-05-10 23:18   ` David Miller
2015-05-11  0:01     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-05-11  0:52       ` David Miller
2015-05-07  4:11 ` [PATCH 02/10] igb: Don't use NETDEV_FRAG_PAGE_MAX_SIZE in descriptor calculation Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:11 ` [PATCH 03/10] net: Store virtual address instead of page in netdev_alloc_cache Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:11 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm/net: Rename and move page fragment handling from net/ to mm/ Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 05/10] net: Add skb_free_frag to replace use of put_page in freeing skb->head Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 06/10] netcp: Replace put_page(virt_to_head_page(ptr)) w/ skb_free_frag Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 07/10] mvneta: " Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 08/10] e1000: Replace e1000_free_frag with skb_free_frag Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  8:46   ` Jeff Kirsher
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 09/10] hisilicon: Replace put_page(virt_to_head_page()) with skb_free_frag() Alexander Duyck
2015-05-07  4:12 ` [PATCH 10/10] bnx2x, tg3: " Alexander Duyck
2015-05-10 23:17 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-05-11 20:36   ` [PATCH 00/10] Refactor netdev page frags and move them into mm/ Andrew Morton
2015-05-12 14:39     ` David Miller

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