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

From: Alexander H Duyck
Date: Sun Apr 07 2024 - 13:52:48 EST


On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 21:08 +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> 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)) {

Rather than using "ALIGN" with a negative value it would probably make
more sense to use __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK with ~align_mask. I am not sure
how well the compiler sorts out the use of negatives to flip values
that are then converted to masks with the "(a) - 1".

> 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;
> }