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net: Add device Rx page allocation function 

This patch implements __dev_alloc_pages and __dev_alloc_page.  These are
meant to replace the __skb_alloc_pages and __skb_alloc_page functions.  The
reason for doing this is that it occurred to me that __skb_alloc_page is
supposed to be passed an sk_buff pointer, but it is NULL in all cases where
it is used.  Worse is that in the case of ixgbe it is passed NULL via the
sk_buff pointer in the rx_buffer info structure which means the compiler is
not correctly stripping it out.

The naming for these functions is based on dev_alloc_skb and __dev_alloc_skb.
There was originally a netdev_alloc_page, however that was passed a
net_device pointer and this function is not so I thought it best to follow
that naming scheme since that is the same difference between dev_alloc_skb
and netdev_alloc_skb.

In the case of anything greater than order 0 it is assumed that we want a
compound page so __GFP_COMP is set for all allocations as we expect a
compound page when assigning a page frag.

The other change in this patch is to exploit the behaviors of the page
allocator in how it handles flags.  So for example we can always set
__GFP_COMP and __GFP_MEMALLOC since they are ignored if they are not
applicable or are overridden by another flag.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Alexander Duyck 2014-11-11 09:26:34 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 6c91023dc3
commit 71dfda58aa
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@ -2184,6 +2184,54 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
return __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
/**
* __dev_alloc_pages - allocate page for network Rx
* @gfp_mask: allocation priority. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network Rx
* @order: size of the allocation
*
* Allocate a new page.
*
* %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
*/
static inline struct page *__dev_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order)
{
/* This piece of code contains several assumptions.
* 1. This is for device Rx, therefor a cold page is preferred.
* 2. The expectation is the user wants a compound page.
* 3. If requesting a order 0 page it will not be compound
* due to the check to see if order has a value in prep_new_page
* 4. __GFP_MEMALLOC is ignored if __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is set due to
* code in gfp_to_alloc_flags that should be enforcing this.
*/
gfp_mask |= __GFP_COLD | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_MEMALLOC;
return alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp_mask, order);
}
static inline struct page *dev_alloc_pages(unsigned int order)
{
return __dev_alloc_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
}
/**
* __dev_alloc_page - allocate a page for network Rx
* @gfp_mask: allocation priority. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network Rx
*
* Allocate a new page.
*
* %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
*/
static inline struct page *__dev_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
return __dev_alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0);
}
static inline struct page *dev_alloc_page(void)
{
return __dev_alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
}
/**
* __skb_alloc_pages - allocate pages for ps-rx on a skb and preserve pfmemalloc data
* @gfp_mask: alloc_pages_node mask. Set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if not for network packet RX