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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-25 12:06:01 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-25 12:06:02 +1000
commitfb6813f480806d62361719e84777c8e00d3e86a8 (patch)
tree800f68b515a39b554ed3a852ba36ea54c1beef8c /drivers/net
parent97402b96f87c6e32f75f1bffdd91a5ee144b679d (diff)
virtio: Recycle unused recv buffer pages for large skbs in net driver
If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+) skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers): Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase that from 128 to 2048: Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page: Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to have a separate "small buffer" queue. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/virtio_net.c36
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 0886b8a2d92..0196a0df902 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ struct virtnet_info
/* Receive & send queues. */
struct sk_buff_head recv;
struct sk_buff_head send;
+
+ /* Chain pages by the private ptr. */
+ struct page *pages;
};
static inline struct virtio_net_hdr *skb_vnet_hdr(struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -73,6 +76,23 @@ static inline void vnet_hdr_to_sg(struct scatterlist *sg, struct sk_buff *skb)
sg_init_one(sg, skb_vnet_hdr(skb), sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr));
}
+static void give_a_page(struct virtnet_info *vi, struct page *page)
+{
+ page->private = (unsigned long)vi->pages;
+ vi->pages = page;
+}
+
+static struct page *get_a_page(struct virtnet_info *vi, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ struct page *p = vi->pages;
+
+ if (p)
+ vi->pages = (struct page *)p->private;
+ else
+ p = alloc_page(gfp_mask);
+ return p;
+}
+
static void skb_xmit_done(struct virtqueue *svq)
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = svq->vdev->priv;
@@ -101,6 +121,15 @@ static void receive_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
}
len -= sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr);
+ if (len <= MAX_PACKET_LEN) {
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
+ give_a_page(dev->priv, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+ skb->data_len = 0;
+ skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = 0;
+ }
+
err = pskb_trim(skb, len);
if (err) {
pr_debug("%s: pskb_trim failed %i %d\n", dev->name, len, err);
@@ -183,7 +212,7 @@ static void try_fill_recv(struct virtnet_info *vi)
if (vi->big_packets) {
for (i = 0; i < MAX_SKB_FRAGS; i++) {
skb_frag_t *f = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
- f->page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+ f->page = get_a_page(vi, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!f->page)
break;
@@ -506,6 +535,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
vi->dev = dev;
vi->vdev = vdev;
vdev->priv = vi;
+ vi->pages = NULL;
/* If they give us a callback when all buffers are done, we don't need
* the timer. */
@@ -591,6 +621,10 @@ static void virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
vdev->config->del_vq(vi->svq);
vdev->config->del_vq(vi->rvq);
unregister_netdev(vi->dev);
+
+ while (vi->pages)
+ __free_pages(get_a_page(vi, GFP_KERNEL), 0);
+
free_netdev(vi->dev);
}