page_pool: Allow drivers to hint on SKB recycling

Up to now several high speed NICs have custom mechanisms of recycling
the allocated memory they use for their payloads.
Our page_pool API already has recycling capabilities that are always
used when we are running in 'XDP mode'. So let's tweak the API and the
kernel network stack slightly and allow the recycling to happen even
during the standard operation.
The API doesn't take into account 'split page' policies used by those
drivers currently, but can be extended once we have users for that.

The idea is to be able to intercept the packet on skb_release_data().
If it's a buffer coming from our page_pool API recycle it back to the
pool for further usage or just release the packet entirely.

To achieve that we introduce a bit in struct sk_buff (pp_recycle:1) and
a field in struct page (page->pp) to store the page_pool pointer.
Storing the information in page->pp allows us to recycle both SKBs and
their fragments.
We could have skipped the skb bit entirely, since identical information
can bederived from struct page. However, in an effort to affect the free path
as less as possible, reading a single bit in the skb which is already
in cache, is better that trying to derive identical information for the
page stored data.

The driver or page_pool has to take care of the sync operations on it's own
during the buffer recycling since the buffer is, after opting-in to the
recycling, never unmapped.

Since the gain on the drivers depends on the architecture, we are not
enabling recycling by default if the page_pool API is used on a driver.
In order to enable recycling the driver must call skb_mark_for_recycle()
to store the information we need for recycling in page->pp and
enabling the recycling bit, or page_pool_store_mem_info() for a fragment.

Co-developed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 12b7e90dd2b5..a0b1d4847efe 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
 #include <net/xfrm.h>
 #include <net/mpls.h>
 #include <net/mptcp.h>
+#include <net/page_pool.h>
 
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <trace/events/skb.h>
@@ -645,10 +646,13 @@ static void skb_free_head(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	unsigned char *head = skb->head;
 
-	if (skb->head_frag)
+	if (skb->head_frag) {
+		if (skb_pp_recycle(skb, head))
+			return;
 		skb_free_frag(head);
-	else
+	} else {
 		kfree(head);
+	}
 }
 
 static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -664,7 +668,7 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	skb_zcopy_clear(skb, true);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < shinfo->nr_frags; i++)
-		__skb_frag_unref(&shinfo->frags[i], false);
+		__skb_frag_unref(&shinfo->frags[i], skb->pp_recycle);
 
 	if (shinfo->frag_list)
 		kfree_skb_list(shinfo->frag_list);
@@ -1046,6 +1050,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *__skb_clone(struct sk_buff *n, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	n->nohdr = 0;
 	n->peeked = 0;
 	C(pfmemalloc);
+	C(pp_recycle);
 	n->destructor = NULL;
 	C(tail);
 	C(end);
@@ -3495,7 +3500,7 @@ int skb_shift(struct sk_buff *tgt, struct sk_buff *skb, int shiftlen)
 		fragto = &skb_shinfo(tgt)->frags[merge];
 
 		skb_frag_size_add(fragto, skb_frag_size(fragfrom));
-		__skb_frag_unref(fragfrom, false);
+		__skb_frag_unref(fragfrom, skb->pp_recycle);
 	}
 
 	/* Reposition in the original skb */
@@ -5285,6 +5290,13 @@ bool skb_try_coalesce(struct sk_buff *to, struct sk_buff *from,
 	if (skb_cloned(to))
 		return false;
 
+	/* The page pool signature of struct page will eventually figure out
+	 * which pages can be recycled or not but for now let's prohibit slab
+	 * allocated and page_pool allocated SKBs from being coalesced.
+	 */
+	if (to->pp_recycle != from->pp_recycle)
+		return false;
+
 	if (len <= skb_tailroom(to)) {
 		if (len)
 			BUG_ON(skb_copy_bits(from, 0, skb_put(to, len), len));