[PATCH net-next v10 0/6] introduce page_pool_alloc() related API

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Wed Oct 11 08:36:17 PDT 2023


On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:11:32 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> In [1] & [2] & [3], there are usecases for veth and virtio_net
> to use frag support in page pool to reduce memory usage, and it
> may request different frag size depending on the head/tail
> room space for xdp_frame/shinfo and mtu/packet size. When the
> requested frag size is large enough that a single page can not
> be split into more than one frag, using frag support only have
> performance penalty because of the extra frag count handling
> for frag support.
> 
> So this patchset provides a page pool API for the driver to
> allocate memory with least memory utilization and performance
> penalty when it doesn't know the size of memory it need
> beforehand.

Could you rebase & repost? Patches no longer apply :(




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