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mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()
authorYunsheng Lin <[email protected]>
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:53:38 +0000 (19:53 +0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:56:26 +0000 (10:56 -0800)
commit8218f62c9c9b283dd296a23ea8fbbd6be7bd5760
tree80f594349e4ad0c1a52b33b01ac7580063ce4a85
parent65941f10caf2c04781a7defa4ec0ab119dbd235a
mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()

We are about to use page_frag_alloc_*() API to not just
allocate memory for skb->data, but also use them to do
the memory allocation for skb frag too. Currently the
implementation of page_frag in mm subsystem is running
the offset as a countdown rather than count-up value,
there may have several advantages to that as mentioned
in [1], but it may have some disadvantages, for example,
it may disable skb frag coalescing and more correct cache
prefetching

We have a trade-off to make in order to have a unified
implementation and API for page_frag, so use a initial zero
offset in this patch, and the following patch will try to
make some optimization to avoid the disadvantages as much
as possible.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/f4abe71b3439b39d17a6fb2d410180f367cadf5c[email protected]/

CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
CC: Linux-MM <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
mm/page_frag_cache.c
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