Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 0/2] add elevated refcnt support for page pool

From: Matteo Croce
Date: Fri Jul 09 2021 - 00:16:52 EST


On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 6:50 PM Marcin Wojtas <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> śr., 7 lip 2021 o 01:20 Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 5:51 PM Russell King (Oracle)
> > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:17:54 +0800
> > > > Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This patchset adds elevated refcnt support for page pool
> > > > > and enable skb's page frag recycling based on page pool
> > > > > in hns3 drvier.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yunsheng Lin (2):
> > > > > page_pool: add page recycling support based on elevated refcnt
> > > > > net: hns3: support skb's frag page recycling based on page pool
> > > > >
> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 79 +++++++-
> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h | 3 +
> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_ethtool.c | 1 +
> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 6 +-
> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c | 2 +-
> > > > > include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +-
> > > > > include/linux/skbuff.h | 4 +-
> > > > > include/net/page_pool.h | 30 ++-
> > > > > net/core/page_pool.c | 215
> > > > > +++++++++++++++++---- 9 files changed, 285 insertions(+), 57
> > > > > deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Interesting!
> > > > Unfortunately I'll not have access to my macchiatobin anytime soon, can
> > > > someone test the impact, if any, on mvpp2?
> > >
> > > I'll try to test. Please let me know what kind of testing you're
> > > looking for (I haven't been following these patches, sorry.)
> > >
> >
> > A drop test or L2 routing will be enough.
> > BTW I should have the macchiatobin back on friday.
>
> I have a 10G packet generator connected to 10G ports of CN913x-DB - I
> will stress mvpp2 in l2 forwarding early next week (I'm mostly AFK
> this until Monday).
>

I managed to to a drop test on mvpp2. Maybe there is a slowdown but
it's below the measurement uncertainty.

Perf top before:

Overhead Shared O Symbol
8.48% [kernel] [k] page_pool_put_page
2.57% [kernel] [k] page_pool_refill_alloc_cache
1.58% [kernel] [k] page_pool_alloc_pages
0.75% [kernel] [k] page_pool_return_skb_page

after:

Overhead Shared O Symbol
8.34% [kernel] [k] page_pool_put_page
4.52% [kernel] [k] page_pool_return_skb_page
4.42% [kernel] [k] page_pool_sub_bias
3.16% [kernel] [k] page_pool_alloc_pages
2.43% [kernel] [k] page_pool_refill_alloc_cache

Regards,
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