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    skbuff: Optimization of SKB coalescing for page pool · f7dc3248
    Liang Chen authored
    In order to address the issues encountered with commit 1effe8ca
    ("skbuff: fix coalescing for page_pool fragment recycling"), the
    combination of the following condition was excluded from skb coalescing:
    
    from->pp_recycle = 1
    from->cloned = 1
    to->pp_recycle = 1
    
    However, with page pool environments, the aforementioned combination can
    be quite common(ex. NetworkMananger may lead to the additional
    packet_type being registered, thus the cloning). In scenarios with a
    higher number of small packets, it can significantly affect the success
    rate of coalescing. For example, considering packets of 256 bytes size,
    our comparison of coalescing success rate is as follows:
    
    Without page pool: 70%
    With page pool: 13%
    
    Consequently, this has an impact on performance:
    
    Without page pool: 2.57 Gbits/sec
    With page pool: 2.26 Gbits/sec
    
    Therefore, it seems worthwhile to optimize this scenario and enable
    coalescing of this particular combination. To achieve this, we need to
    ensure the correct increment of the "from" SKB page's page pool
    reference count (pp_ref_count).
    
    Following this optimization, the success rate of coalescing measured in
    our environment has improved as follows:
    
    With page pool: 60%
    
    This success rate is approaching the rate achieved without using page
    pool, and the performance has also been improved:
    
    With page pool: 2.52 Gbits/sec
    
    Below is the performance comparison for small packets before and after
    this optimization. We observe no impact to packets larger than 4K.
    
    packet size     before      after       improved
    (bytes)         (Gbits/sec) (Gbits/sec)
    128             1.19        1.27        7.13%
    256             2.26        2.52        11.75%
    512             4.13        4.81        16.50%
    1024            6.17        6.73        9.05%
    2048            14.54       15.47       6.45%
    4096            25.44       27.87       9.52%
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLiang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarYunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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