From eedade12f4cb7284555c4c0314485e9575c70ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:52:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: kfree_skb_list use kmem_cache_free_bulk The kfree_skb_list function walks SKB (via skb->next) and frees them individually to the SLUB/SLAB allocator (kmem_cache). It is more efficient to bulk free them via the kmem_cache_free_bulk API. This patches create a stack local array with SKBs to bulk free while walking the list. Bulk array size is limited to 16 SKBs to trade off stack usage and efficiency. The SLUB kmem_cache "skbuff_head_cache" uses objsize 256 bytes usually in an order-1 page 8192 bytes that is 32 objects per slab (can vary on archs and due to SLUB sharing). Thus, for SLUB the optimal bulk free case is 32 objects belonging to same slab, but runtime this isn't likely to occur. The expected gain from using kmem_cache bulk alloc and free API have been assessed via a microbencmark kernel module[1]. The module 'slab_bulk_test01' results at bulk 16 element: kmem-in-loop Per elem: 109 cycles(tsc) 30.532 ns (step:16) kmem-bulk Per elem: 64 cycles(tsc) 17.905 ns (step:16) More detailed description of benchmarks avail in [2]. [1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm [2] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-project/blob/master/areas/mem/kfree_skb_list01.org V2: rename function to kfree_skb_add_bulk. Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- net/core/skbuff.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index ca2b4d6f9c9aa..4e73ab3482b87 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -962,16 +962,54 @@ kfree_skb_reason(struct sk_buff *skb, enum skb_drop_reason reason) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb_reason); +#define KFREE_SKB_BULK_SIZE 16 + +struct skb_free_array { + unsigned int skb_count; + void *skb_array[KFREE_SKB_BULK_SIZE]; +}; + +static void kfree_skb_add_bulk(struct sk_buff *skb, + struct skb_free_array *sa, + enum skb_drop_reason reason) +{ + /* if SKB is a clone, don't handle this case */ + if (unlikely(skb->fclone != SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE)) { + __kfree_skb(skb); + return; + } + + skb_release_all(skb, reason); + sa->skb_array[sa->skb_count++] = skb; + + if (unlikely(sa->skb_count == KFREE_SKB_BULK_SIZE)) { + kmem_cache_free_bulk(skbuff_head_cache, KFREE_SKB_BULK_SIZE, + sa->skb_array); + sa->skb_count = 0; + } +} + void __fix_address kfree_skb_list_reason(struct sk_buff *segs, enum skb_drop_reason reason) { + struct skb_free_array sa; + + sa.skb_count = 0; + while (segs) { struct sk_buff *next = segs->next; + skb_mark_not_on_list(segs); + if (__kfree_skb_reason(segs, reason)) - __kfree_skb(segs); + kfree_skb_add_bulk(segs, &sa, reason); + segs = next; } + + if (sa.skb_count) + kmem_cache_free_bulk(skbuff_head_cache, sa.skb_count, + sa.skb_array); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb_list_reason); -- 2.30.2