The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 011b0335903832facca86cd8ed05d7d8d94c9c76 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025021859-upturned-trailside-5b21@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..

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thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 011b0335903832facca86cd8ed05d7d8d94c9c76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 22:28:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"

This reverts commit dbae2b062824 ("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache"). The intended goal of such change was to counter a performance regression introduced by commit 3226b158e67c ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs").

Unfortunately, the blamed commit introduces another regression for the virtio_net driver. Such a driver calls napi_alloc_skb() with a tiny size, so that the whole head frag could fit a 512-byte block.

The single page frag cache uses a 1K fragment for such allocation, and the additional overhead, under small UDP packets flood, makes the page allocator a bottleneck.

Thanks to commit bf9f1baa279f ("net: add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head"), this revert does not re-introduce the original regression. Actually, in the relevant test on top of this revert, I measure a small but noticeable positive delta, just above noise level.

The revert itself required some additional mangling due to the introduction of the SKB_HEAD_ALIGN() helper and local lock infra in the affected code.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Fixes: dbae2b062824 ("net: skb: introduce and use a single page frag cache") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e649212fde9f0fdee23909ca0d14158d32bb7425.1738877290... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index c0a86afb85da..365f0e2098d1 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -4115,7 +4115,6 @@ void netif_receive_skb_list(struct list_head *head); gro_result_t napi_gro_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb); void napi_gro_flush(struct napi_struct *napi, bool flush_old); struct sk_buff *napi_get_frags(struct napi_struct *napi); -void napi_get_frags_check(struct napi_struct *napi); gro_result_t napi_gro_frags(struct napi_struct *napi);

static inline void napi_free_frags(struct napi_struct *napi) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index b91658e8aedb..55e356a68db6 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -6920,6 +6920,23 @@ netif_napi_dev_list_add(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi) list_add_rcu(&napi->dev_list, higher); /* adds after higher */ }

+/* Double check that napi_get_frags() allocates skbs with + * skb->head being backed by slab, not a page fragment. + * This is to make sure bug fixed in 3226b158e67c + * ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") + * does not accidentally come back. + */ +static void napi_get_frags_check(struct napi_struct *napi) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb; + + local_bh_disable(); + skb = napi_get_frags(napi); + WARN_ON_ONCE(skb && skb->head_frag); + napi_free_frags(napi); + local_bh_enable(); +} + void netif_napi_add_weight_locked(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi, int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int), diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index a441613a1e6c..6a99c453397f 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -220,67 +220,9 @@ static void skb_under_panic(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int sz, void *addr) #define NAPI_SKB_CACHE_BULK 16 #define NAPI_SKB_CACHE_HALF (NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE / 2)

-#if PAGE_SIZE == SZ_4K - -#define NAPI_HAS_SMALL_PAGE_FRAG 1 -#define NAPI_SMALL_PAGE_PFMEMALLOC(nc) ((nc).pfmemalloc) - -/* specialized page frag allocator using a single order 0 page - * and slicing it into 1K sized fragment. Constrained to systems - * with a very limited amount of 1K fragments fitting a single - * page - to avoid excessive truesize underestimation - */ - -struct page_frag_1k { - void *va; - u16 offset; - bool pfmemalloc; -}; - -static void *page_frag_alloc_1k(struct page_frag_1k *nc, gfp_t gfp) -{ - struct page *page; - int offset; - - offset = nc->offset - SZ_1K; - if (likely(offset >= 0)) - goto use_frag; - - page = alloc_pages_node(NUMA_NO_NODE, gfp, 0); - if (!page) - return NULL; - - nc->va = page_address(page); - nc->pfmemalloc = page_is_pfmemalloc(page); - offset = PAGE_SIZE - SZ_1K; - page_ref_add(page, offset / SZ_1K); - -use_frag: - nc->offset = offset; - return nc->va + offset; -} -#else - -/* the small page is actually unused in this build; add dummy helpers - * to please the compiler and avoid later preprocessor's conditionals - */ -#define NAPI_HAS_SMALL_PAGE_FRAG 0 -#define NAPI_SMALL_PAGE_PFMEMALLOC(nc) false - -struct page_frag_1k { -}; - -static void *page_frag_alloc_1k(struct page_frag_1k *nc, gfp_t gfp_mask) -{ - return NULL; -} - -#endif - struct napi_alloc_cache { local_lock_t bh_lock; struct page_frag_cache page; - struct page_frag_1k page_small; unsigned int skb_count; void *skb_cache[NAPI_SKB_CACHE_SIZE]; }; @@ -290,23 +232,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct napi_alloc_cache, napi_alloc_cache) = { .bh_lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(bh_lock), };

-/* Double check that napi_get_frags() allocates skbs with - * skb->head being backed by slab, not a page fragment. - * This is to make sure bug fixed in 3226b158e67c - * ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for tiny skbs") - * does not accidentally come back. - */ -void napi_get_frags_check(struct napi_struct *napi) -{ - struct sk_buff *skb; - - local_bh_disable(); - skb = napi_get_frags(napi); - WARN_ON_ONCE(!NAPI_HAS_SMALL_PAGE_FRAG && skb && skb->head_frag); - napi_free_frags(napi); - local_bh_enable(); -} - void *__napi_alloc_frag_align(unsigned int fragsz, unsigned int align_mask) { struct napi_alloc_cache *nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache); @@ -813,10 +738,8 @@ struct sk_buff *napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len)

/* If requested length is either too small or too big, * we use kmalloc() for skb->head allocation. - * When the small frag allocator is available, prefer it over kmalloc - * for small fragments */ - if ((!NAPI_HAS_SMALL_PAGE_FRAG && len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)) || + if (len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) || len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE) || (gfp_mask & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | GFP_DMA))) { skb = __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX | SKB_ALLOC_NAPI, @@ -826,32 +749,16 @@ struct sk_buff *napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len) goto skb_success; }

+ len = SKB_HEAD_ALIGN(len); + if (sk_memalloc_socks()) gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;

local_lock_nested_bh(&napi_alloc_cache.bh_lock); nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache); - if (NAPI_HAS_SMALL_PAGE_FRAG && len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)) { - /* we are artificially inflating the allocation size, but - * that is not as bad as it may look like, as: - * - 'len' less than GRO_MAX_HEAD makes little sense - * - On most systems, larger 'len' values lead to fragment - * size above 512 bytes - * - kmalloc would use the kmalloc-1k slab for such values - * - Builds with smaller GRO_MAX_HEAD will very likely do - * little networking, as that implies no WiFi and no - * tunnels support, and 32 bits arches. - */ - len = SZ_1K;

- data = page_frag_alloc_1k(&nc->page_small, gfp_mask); - pfmemalloc = NAPI_SMALL_PAGE_PFMEMALLOC(nc->page_small); - } else { - len = SKB_HEAD_ALIGN(len); - - data = page_frag_alloc(&nc->page, len, gfp_mask); - pfmemalloc = page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc(&nc->page); - } + data = page_frag_alloc(&nc->page, len, gfp_mask); + pfmemalloc = page_frag_cache_is_pfmemalloc(&nc->page); local_unlock_nested_bh(&napi_alloc_cache.bh_lock);

if (unlikely(!data))