[PATCH net-next v10 03/15] mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()

From: Yunsheng Lin
Date: Tue Jul 09 2024 - 09:31:57 EST


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 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 avoid the disadvantages as much
as possible.

Rename 'offset' to 'remaining' to retain the 'countdown'
behavior as 'remaining countdown' instead of 'offset
countdown'. Also, Renaming enable us to do a single
'fragsz > remaining' checking for the case of cache not
being enough, which should be the fast path if we ensure
'remaining' is zero when 'va' == NULL by memset'ing
'struct page_frag_cache' in page_frag_cache_init() and
page_frag_cache_drain().

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

CC: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page_frag_cache.h | 4 +--
mm/page_frag_cache.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
index 325872cec8a4..ed8bacbb877b 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_frag_cache.h
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
struct page_frag_cache {
void *va;
#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
- __u16 offset;
+ __u16 remaining;
__u16 size;
#else
- __u32 offset;
+ __u32 remaining;
#endif
/* we maintain a pagecount bias, so that we dont dirty cache line
* containing page->_refcount every time we allocate a fragment.
diff --git a/mm/page_frag_cache.c b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
index 609a485cd02a..ef0a02f12acc 100644
--- a/mm/page_frag_cache.c
+++ b/mm/page_frag_cache.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
static struct page *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
+ unsigned int page_size = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE;
struct page *page = NULL;
gfp_t gfp = gfp_mask;

@@ -30,12 +31,21 @@ static struct page *__page_frag_cache_refill(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
__GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
page = alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp_mask,
PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_ORDER);
- nc->size = page ? PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE : PAGE_SIZE;
#endif
- if (unlikely(!page))
+ if (unlikely(!page)) {
page = alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp, 0);
+ if (unlikely(!page)) {
+ nc->va = NULL;
+ return NULL;
+ }

- nc->va = page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
+ page_size = PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+
+#if (PAGE_SIZE < PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE)
+ nc->size = page_size;
+#endif
+ nc->va = page_address(page);

return page;
}
@@ -63,9 +73,9 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
unsigned int fragsz, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int align_mask)
{
+ int aligned_remaining, remaining;
unsigned int size = PAGE_SIZE;
struct page *page;
- int offset;

if (unlikely(!nc->va)) {
refill:
@@ -82,14 +92,20 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
*/
page_ref_add(page, PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE);

- /* reset page count bias and offset to start of new frag */
+ /* reset page count bias and remaining to start of new frag */
nc->pfmemalloc = page_is_pfmemalloc(page);
nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1;
- nc->offset = size;
+ nc->remaining = size;
}

- 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;
+#endif
+
+ aligned_remaining = nc->remaining & align_mask;
+ remaining = aligned_remaining - fragsz;
+ if (unlikely(remaining < 0)) {
page = virt_to_page(nc->va);

if (!page_ref_sub_and_test(page, nc->pagecnt_bias))
@@ -100,17 +116,16 @@ 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 */
+ /* reset page count bias and remaining to start of new frag */
nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1;
- offset = size - fragsz;
- if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
+ nc->remaining = size;
+
+ aligned_remaining = size;
+ remaining = aligned_remaining - fragsz;
+ if (unlikely(remaining < 0)) {
/*
* The caller is trying to allocate a fragment
* with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big
@@ -125,10 +140,9 @@ void *__page_frag_alloc_align(struct page_frag_cache *nc,
}

nc->pagecnt_bias--;
- offset &= align_mask;
- nc->offset = offset;
+ nc->remaining = remaining;

- return nc->va + offset;
+ return nc->va + (size - aligned_remaining);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_frag_alloc_align);

--
2.33.0