Re: [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: allocate RX buffers as page fragments

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 20:41:34 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:19:21 +0200 you wrote:
> Since the page_pool conversion every RX buffer is a whole page and the
> skb truesize is the page, although the hardware writes at most 2 KiB of
> it. On 64 KiB pages a packet therefore counts 65792 bytes against the
> socket buffer where it used to count 2752. As a result a UDP socket
> with the default buffer starts to drop after three packets, and the RX
> rings pin 16 MiB for 512 KiB of buffers.
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net] net: bcmgenet: allocate RX buffers as page fragments
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/0e7fe2b0ca45

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