[PATCH net-next v23 3/7] mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()

Yunsheng Lin posted 7 patches 3 weeks, 6 days ago
[PATCH net-next v23 3/7] mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()
Posted by Yunsheng Lin 3 weeks, 6 days ago
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.camel@gmail.com/

CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
---
 mm/page_frag_cache.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index 609a485cd02a..4c8e04379cb3 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -63,9 +63,13 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 			      unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			      unsigned int align_mask)
 {
+#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
+	unsigned int size = nc->size;
+#else
 	unsigned int size = PAGE_SIZE;
+#endif
+	unsigned int offset;
 	struct page *page;
-	int offset;
 
 	if (unlikely(!nc->va)) {
 refill:
@@ -85,11 +89,24 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 		/* reset page count bias and offset to start of new frag */
 		nc->pfmemalloc = page_is_pfmemalloc(page);
 		nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1;
-		nc->offset = size;
+		nc->offset = 0;
 	}
 
-	offset = nc->offset - fragsz;
-	if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
+	offset = __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK(nc->offset, ~align_mask);
+	if (unlikely(offset + fragsz > size)) {
+		if (unlikely(fragsz > PAGE_SIZE)) {
+			/*
+			 * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
+			 * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
+			 * enough to satisfy the request, this may
+			 * happen in low memory conditions.
+			 * We don't release the cache page because
+			 * it could make memory pressure worse
+			 * so we simply return NULL here.
+			 */
+			return NULL;
+		}
+
 		page = virt_to_page(nc->va);
 
 		if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias))
@@ -100,33 +117,16 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 			goto refill;
 		}
 
-#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
-		/* if size can vary use size else just use PAGE_SIZE */
-		size = nc->size;
-#endif
 		/* OK, page count is 0, we can safely set it */
 		set_page_count(page, PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1);
 
 		/* reset page count bias and offset to start of new frag */
 		nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1;
-		offset = size - fragsz;
-		if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
-			/*
-			 * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
-			 * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
-			 * enough to satisfy the request, this may
-			 * happen in low memory conditions.
-			 * We don't release the cache page because
-			 * it could make memory pressure worse
-			 * so we simply return NULL here.
-			 */
-			return NULL;
-		}
+		offset = 0;
 	}
 
 	nc->pagecnt_bias--;
-	offset &= align_mask;
-	nc->offset = offset;
+	nc->offset = offset + fragsz;
 
 	return nc->va + offset;
 }
-- 
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