[PATCH net-next 6/7] net: devmem: size TX net_iovs from the dmabuf sg table

From: Stanislav Fomichev

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 14:17:34 EST


PAGE_SIZE TX net_iovs cap devmem skbs at MAX_SKB_FRAGS pages (~68KB),
which makes BIG TCP ineffective.

TX net_iovs only need to be DMA contiguous. Use the largest power of 2,
up to 2MB, which aligns every DMA segment of the dmabuf:
- 2MB hugepage-backed udmabufs get 2MB net_iovs
- no UAPI change, TX addresses are dmabuf offsets
- skbs are still bounded by TCP's size_goal, only frags get larger

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/devmem.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/devmem.c b/net/core/devmem.c
index 19c039ed2cb2..98c9594dbf99 100644
--- a/net/core/devmem.c
+++ b/net/core/devmem.c
@@ -181,6 +181,20 @@ int net_devmem_bind_dmabuf_to_queue(struct net_device *dev, u32 rxq_idx,
return err;
}

+static bool net_devmem_sgt_aligned(struct sg_table *sgt, size_t size)
+{
+ struct scatterlist *sg;
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ for_each_sgtable_dma_sg(sgt, sg, i) {
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(sg_dma_address(sg), size) ||
+ !IS_ALIGNED(sg_dma_len(sg), size))
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
+/* niov_shift == 0 picks the net_iov size from the dmabuf, TX only */
struct net_devmem_dmabuf_binding *
net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(struct net_device *dev, void *vdev,
struct device *dma_dev,
@@ -191,11 +205,11 @@ net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(struct net_device *dev, void *vdev,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
struct net_devmem_dmabuf_binding *binding;
- size_t niov_size = 1UL << niov_shift;
static u32 id_alloc_next;
struct scatterlist *sg;
struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
unsigned int sg_idx;
+ size_t niov_size;
size_t niov_idx;
size_t i;
long err;
@@ -221,7 +235,6 @@ net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(struct net_device *dev, void *vdev,
binding->tx_max_frag_size = dev->netmem_tx_max_frag_size;
write_pnet(&binding->net, sock_net(nl_sk));
binding->uid = sk_uid(nl_sk);
- binding->niov_shift = niov_shift;
xa_init_flags(&binding->bound_rxqs, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC);

err = percpu_ref_init(&binding->ref,
@@ -266,6 +279,17 @@ net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(struct net_device *dev, void *vdev,
goto err_unmap;
}

+ if (!niov_shift) {
+ niov_size = SZ_2M;
+ while (niov_size > PAGE_SIZE &&
+ (!IS_ALIGNED(dmabuf->size, niov_size) ||
+ !net_devmem_sgt_aligned(binding->sgt, niov_size)))
+ niov_size /= 2;
+ niov_shift = ilog2(niov_size);
+ }
+ binding->niov_shift = niov_shift;
+ niov_size = 1UL << niov_shift;
+
if (!IS_ALIGNED(dmabuf->size, niov_size)) {
err = -EINVAL;
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(extack,
diff --git a/net/core/netdev-genl.c b/net/core/netdev-genl.c
index 384fdc5ae514..bfd229bd31ca 100644
--- a/net/core/netdev-genl.c
+++ b/net/core/netdev-genl.c
@@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ int netdev_nl_bind_tx_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
binding = net_devmem_bind_dmabuf(bind_dev,
bind_dev != netdev ? netdev : NULL,
dma_dev, DMA_TO_DEVICE, dmabuf_fd,
- PAGE_SHIFT, priv, NETLINK_CB(skb).sk,
+ 0, priv, NETLINK_CB(skb).sk,
info->extack);
if (IS_ERR(binding)) {
err = PTR_ERR(binding);
--
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