Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2021-08-24

[PATCH net-next v3] page_pool: use relaxed atomic for release side accounting

STALE1868d REVIEWED: 1 (0M)

From: Yunsheng Lin <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-24 09:08:07
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Subsystem: networking [general], page pool, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Ilias Apalodimas, Linus Torvalds

1 review trailer.

There is no need to synchronize the account updating, so
use the relaxed atomic to avoid some memory barrier in the
data path.

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <redacted>
---
V3: Drop patch 2.
V2: Remove unnecessary unliky() mark as pointed out by
    Heiner.
---
 net/core/page_pool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
index e140905..1a69784 100644
--- a/net/core/page_pool.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ void page_pool_release_page(struct page_pool *pool, struct page *page)
 	/* This may be the last page returned, releasing the pool, so
 	 * it is not safe to reference pool afterwards.
 	 */
-	count = atomic_inc_return(&pool->pages_state_release_cnt);
+	count = atomic_inc_return_relaxed(&pool->pages_state_release_cnt);
 	trace_page_pool_state_release(pool, page, count);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_pool_release_page);
-- 
2.7.4
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