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author | Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com> | 2024-10-28 19:53:38 +0800 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-11-11 10:56:26 -0800 |
commit | 8218f62c9c9b283dd296a23ea8fbbd6be7bd5760 (patch) | |
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mm: page_frag: use initial zero offset for page_frag_alloc_align()
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 coalescing 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.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/f4abe71b3439b39d17a6fb2d410180f367cadf5c.camel@gmail.com/
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241028115343.3405838-4-linyunsheng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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