[PATCH net-next v1 02/12] mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()

[Yunsheng Lin]

We are above 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 coaleasing 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 aovid the disadvantages as much
as possible.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/f4abe71b3439b39d17a6fb2d410180f367cadf5c.camel@xxxxxxxxx/

CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/page_frag_cache.c | 31 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index a0f90ba25200..3e3e88d9af90 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 			      unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			      unsigned int align_mask)
 {
-	unsigned int size = PAGE_SIZE;
+	unsigned int size, offset;
 	struct page *page;
-	int offset;
 
 	if (unlikely(!nc->va)) {
 refill:
@@ -77,10 +76,6 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 		if (!page)
 			return NULL;
 
-#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
-		/* if size can vary use size else just use PAGE_SIZE */
-		size = nc->size;
-#endif
 		/* Even if we own the page, we do not use atomic_set().
 		 * This would break get_page_unless_zero() users.
 		 */
@@ -89,11 +84,18 @@ 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)) {
+#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
+	/* if size can vary use size else just use PAGE_SIZE */
+	size = nc->size;
+#else
+	size = PAGE_SIZE;
+#endif
+
+	offset = ALIGN(nc->offset, -align_mask);
+	if (unlikely(offset + fragsz > size)) {
 		page = virt_to_page(nc->va);
 
 		if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias))
@@ -104,17 +106,13 @@ 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)) {
+		offset = 0;
+		if (unlikely(fragsz > size)) {
 			/*
 			 * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
 			 * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
@@ -129,8 +127,7 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
 	}
 
 	nc->pagecnt_bias--;
-	offset &= align_mask;
-	nc->offset = offset;
+	nc->offset = offset + fragsz;
 
 	return nc->va + offset;
 }
-- 
2.33.0