Re: [PATCH net-next v8] virtio_net: add page_pool support for buffer allocation
From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sat Feb 28 2026 - 16:15:10 EST
On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 05:41:22AM -0800, Vishwanath Seshagiri wrote:
> @@ -2446,7 +2349,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *virtnet_skb_append_frag(struct sk_buff *head_skb,
>
> offset = buf - page_address(page);
> if (skb_can_coalesce(curr_skb, num_skb_frags, page, offset)) {
> - put_page(page);
> + page_pool_put_page(rq->page_pool, page, -1, true);
> skb_coalesce_rx_frag(curr_skb, num_skb_frags - 1,
> len, truesize);
> } else {
This part seems wrong to me: can this not be called from
xsk_append_merge_buffer? Because that one seems to still allocate with
napi_alloc_frag.
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