Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 2 authors, 2021-12-29

[PATCH net-next 5/9] ice: switch to napi_build_skb()

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From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2021-12-28 17:59:08
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

2 review trailers.

From: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>

napi_build_skb() reuses per-cpu NAPI skbuff_head cache in order
to save some cycles on freeing/allocating skbuff_heads on every
new Rx or completed Tx.
ice driver runs Tx completion polling cycle right before the Rx
one and uses napi_consume_skb() to feed the cache with skbuff_heads
of completed entries, so it's never empty and always warm at that
moment. Switch to the napi_build_skb() to relax mm pressure on
heavy Rx.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <redacted>
Tested-by: Gurucharan G <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
index 47057010b172..486fc5509d13 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ ice_build_skb(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring, struct ice_rx_buf *rx_buf,
 	 */
 	net_prefetch(xdp->data_meta);
 	/* build an skb around the page buffer */
-	skb = build_skb(xdp->data_hard_start, truesize);
+	skb = napi_build_skb(xdp->data_hard_start, truesize);
 	if (unlikely(!skb))
 		return NULL;
 
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2.31.1
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