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Paolo Abeni authored
After commit 3226b158 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") we are observing 10-20% regressions in performance tests with small packets. The perf trace points to high pressure on the slab allocator. This change tries to improve the allocation schema for small packets using an idea originally suggested by Eric: a new per CPU page frag is introduced and used in __napi_alloc_skb to cope with small allocation requests. To ensure that the above does not lead to excessive truesize underestimation, the frag size for small allocation is inflated to 1K and all the above is restricted to build with 4K page size. Note that we need to update accordingly the run-time check introduced with commit fd9ea57f ("net: add napi_get_frags_check() helper"). Alex suggested a smart page refcount schema to reduce the number of atomic operations and deal properly with pfmemalloc pages. Under small packet UDP flood, I measure a 15% peak tput increases. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Alexander H Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6b6f65957c59f86a353fc09a5127e83a32ab5999.1664350652.git.pabeni@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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