Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] virtio-net: use per-receive queue page frag alloc for mergeable bufs

From: Jason Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:12:21 +0800

On 12/17/2013 08:16 AM, Michael Dalton wrote:
> The virtio-net driver currently uses netdev_alloc_frag() for GFP_ATOMIC
> mergeable rx buffer allocations. This commit migrates virtio-net to use
> per-receive queue page frags for GFP_ATOMIC allocation. This change unifies
> mergeable rx buffer memory allocation, which now will use skb_refill_frag()
> for both atomic and GFP-WAIT buffer allocations.
>
> To address fragmentation concerns, if after buffer allocation there
> is too little space left in the page frag to allocate a subsequent
> buffer, the remaining space is added to the current allocated buffer
> so that the remaining space can be used to store packet data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index c51a988..d38d130 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ struct receive_queue {
>  	/* Chain pages by the private ptr. */
>  	struct page *pages;
>  
> +	/* Page frag for GFP_ATOMIC packet buffer allocation. */
> +	struct page_frag atomic_frag;
> +
>  	/* RX: fragments + linear part + virtio header */
>  	struct scatterlist sg[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2];
>  
> @@ -127,9 +130,9 @@ struct virtnet_info {
>  	struct mutex config_lock;
>  
>  	/* Page_frag for GFP_KERNEL packet buffer allocation when we run
> -	 * low on memory.
> +	 * low on memory. May sleep.
>  	 */
> -	struct page_frag alloc_frag;
> +	struct page_frag sleep_frag;

Any reason to use two different page_frag consider only
skb_page_frag_refill() is used?
>  
>  	/* Does the affinity hint is set for virtqueues? */
>  	bool affinity_hint_set;
> @@ -336,8 +339,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
>  	int num_buf = hdr->mhdr.num_buffers;
>  	struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(buf);
>  	int offset = buf - page_address(page);
> -	struct sk_buff *head_skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, offset, len,
> -					       MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> +	int truesize = max_t(int, len, MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> +	struct sk_buff *head_skb = page_to_skb(rq, page, offset, len, truesize);
>  	struct sk_buff *curr_skb = head_skb;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!curr_skb))
> @@ -353,11 +356,6 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
>  			dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
>  			goto err_buf;
>  		}
> -		if (unlikely(len > MERGE_BUFFER_LEN)) {
> -			pr_debug("%s: rx error: merge buffer too long\n",
> -				 dev->name);
> -			len = MERGE_BUFFER_LEN;
> -		}
>  
>  		page = virt_to_head_page(buf);
>  		--rq->num;
> @@ -376,19 +374,20 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
>  			head_skb->truesize += nskb->truesize;
>  			num_skb_frags = 0;
>  		}
> +		truesize = max_t(int, len, MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
>  		if (curr_skb != head_skb) {
>  			head_skb->data_len += len;
>  			head_skb->len += len;
> -			head_skb->truesize += MERGE_BUFFER_LEN;
> +			head_skb->truesize += truesize;
>  		}
>  		offset = buf - page_address(page);
>  		if (skb_can_coalesce(curr_skb, num_skb_frags, page, offset)) {
>  			put_page(page);
>  			skb_coalesce_rx_frag(curr_skb, num_skb_frags - 1,
> -					     len, MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> +					     len, truesize);
>  		} else {
>  			skb_add_rx_frag(curr_skb, num_skb_frags, page,
> -					offset, len, MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> +					offset, len, truesize);
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> @@ -579,24 +578,24 @@ static int add_recvbuf_big(struct receive_queue *rq, gfp_t gfp)
>  static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct receive_queue *rq, gfp_t gfp)
>  {
>  	struct virtnet_info *vi = rq->vq->vdev->priv;
> -	char *buf = NULL;
> -	int err;
> +	struct page_frag *alloc_frag;
> +	char *buf;
> +	int err, len, hole;
>  
> -	if (gfp & __GFP_WAIT) {
> -		if (skb_page_frag_refill(MERGE_BUFFER_LEN, &vi->alloc_frag,
> -					 gfp)) {
> -			buf = (char *)page_address(vi->alloc_frag.page) +
> -			      vi->alloc_frag.offset;
> -			get_page(vi->alloc_frag.page);
> -			vi->alloc_frag.offset += MERGE_BUFFER_LEN;
> -		}
> -	} else {
> -		buf = netdev_alloc_frag(MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> -	}
> -	if (!buf)
> +	alloc_frag = (gfp & __GFP_WAIT) ? &vi->sleep_frag : &rq->atomic_frag;
> +	if (unlikely(!skb_page_frag_refill(MERGE_BUFFER_LEN, alloc_frag, gfp)))
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> +	buf = (char *)page_address(alloc_frag->page) + alloc_frag->offset;
> +	get_page(alloc_frag->page);
> +	len = MERGE_BUFFER_LEN;
> +	alloc_frag->offset += len;
> +	hole = alloc_frag->size - alloc_frag->offset;
> +	if (hole < MERGE_BUFFER_LEN) {
> +		len += hole;
> +		alloc_frag->offset += hole;
> +	}
>  
> -	sg_init_one(rq->sg, buf, MERGE_BUFFER_LEN);
> +	sg_init_one(rq->sg, buf, len);

I wonder whether we can use get_a_page() and give_pages() to recycle the
pages like before which may help the performance. We can also do some
optimizations for this in vhost.
>  	err = virtqueue_add_inbuf(rq->vq, rq->sg, 1, buf, gfp);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		put_page(virt_to_head_page(buf));
> @@ -1377,6 +1376,16 @@ static void free_receive_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void free_receive_page_frags(struct virtnet_info *vi)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++)
> +		if (vi->rq[i].atomic_frag.page)
> +			put_page(vi->rq[i].atomic_frag.page);
> +	if (vi->sleep_frag.page)
> +		put_page(vi->sleep_frag.page);
> +}
> +
>  static void free_unused_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi)
>  {
>  	void *buf;
> @@ -1706,8 +1715,7 @@ free_recv_bufs:
>  free_vqs:
>  	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill);
>  	virtnet_del_vqs(vi);
> -	if (vi->alloc_frag.page)
> -		put_page(vi->alloc_frag.page);
> +	free_receive_page_frags(vi);
>  free_stats:
>  	free_percpu(vi->stats);
>  free:
> @@ -1741,8 +1749,7 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  	unregister_netdev(vi->dev);
>  
>  	remove_vq_common(vi);
> -	if (vi->alloc_frag.page)
> -		put_page(vi->alloc_frag.page);
> +	free_receive_page_frags(vi);
>  
>  	flush_work(&vi->config_work);
>