Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] page_pool: use relaxed atomic for release side accounting

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 03:12:41 EST



On 20/08/2021 08.56, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
There is no need to synchronize the account updating, so
use the relaxed atomic to avoid some memory barrier in the
data path.

Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/core/page_pool.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
index e140905..1a69784 100644
--- a/net/core/page_pool.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ void page_pool_release_page(struct page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
/* This may be the last page returned, releasing the pool, so
* it is not safe to reference pool afterwards.
*/
- count = atomic_inc_return(&pool->pages_state_release_cnt);
+ count = atomic_inc_return_relaxed(&pool->pages_state_release_cnt);
trace_page_pool_state_release(pool, page, count);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_pool_release_page);