Re: [PATCH v4 04/17] octeontx2-pf: Initialize and config queues

On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:51:38 +0530, sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com wrote:

+dma_addr_t otx2_alloc_rbuf(struct otx2_nic *pfvf, struct otx2_pool *pool,
+			   gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	dma_addr_t iova;
+
+	/* Check if request can be accommodated in previous allocated page */
+	if (pool->page &&
+	    ((pool->page_offset + pool->rbsize) <= PAGE_SIZE)) {
+		pool->pageref++;
+		goto ret;
+	}
+
+	otx2_get_page(pool);
+
+	/* Allocate a new page */
+	pool->page = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NOWARN,
+				 pool->rbpage_order);
+	if (unlikely(!pool->page))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	pool->page_offset = 0;
+ret:
+	iova = (u64)otx2_dma_map_page(pfvf, pool->page, pool->page_offset,
+				      pool->rbsize, DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+	if (!iova) {
+		if (!pool->page_offset)
+			__free_pages(pool->page, pool->rbpage_order);
+		pool->page = NULL;
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	pool->page_offset += pool->rbsize;
+	return iova;
+}

You don't seem to be doing any page recycling if I'm reading this right.
Can't you use the standard in-kernel page frag allocator
(netdev_alloc_frag/napi_alloc_frag)?