# Re: \[RFC net-next\] net: veth: reduce page\_pool memory footprint using half page per-buffer

- From: Yunsheng Lin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-05-15 11:11:16 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/05/7848331
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2023/05/7848299/t.md

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On 2023/5/12 21:08, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> In order to reduce page_pool memory footprint, rely on
> page_pool_dev_alloc_frag routine and reduce buffer size
> (VETH_PAGE_POOL_FRAG_SIZE) to PAGE_SIZE / 2 in order to consume one page

Is there any performance improvement beside the memory saving? As it
should reduce TLB miss, I wonder if the TLB miss reducing can even
out the cost of the extra frag reference count handling for the
frag support?

> for two 1500B frames. Reduce VETH_XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM to 192 from 256
> (XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM) to fit max_head_size in VETH_PAGE_POOL_FRAG_SIZE.
> Please note, using default values (CONFIG_MAX_SKB_FRAGS=17), maximum
> supported MTU is now reduced to 36350B.

Maybe we don't need to limit the frag size to VETH_PAGE_POOL_FRAG_SIZE,
and use different frag size depending on the mtu or packet size?

Perhaps the page_pool_dev_alloc_frag() can be improved to return non-frag
page if the requested frag size is larger than a specified size too.
I will try to implement it if the above idea makes sense.
```