Commit d5394610 authored Nov 20, 2019 by Saeed Mahameed Committed by David S. Miller Nov 20, 2019

page_pool: Don't recycle non-reusable pages



A page is NOT reusable when at least one of the following is true:
1) allocated when system was under some pressure. (page_is_pfmemalloc)
2) belongs to a different NUMA node than pool->p.nid.

To update pool->p.nid users should call page_pool_update_nid().

Holding on to such pages in the pool will hurt the consumer performance
when the pool migrates to a different numa node.

Performance testing:
XDP drop/tx rate and TCP single/multi stream, on mlx5 driver
while migrating rx ring irq from close to far numa:

mlx5 internal page cache was locally disabled to get pure page pool
results.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v4 @ 1.70GHz
NIC: Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4] (100G)

XDP Drop/TX single core:
NUMA  | XDP  | Before    | After
---------------------------------------
Close | Drop | 11   Mpps | 10.9 Mpps
Far   | Drop | 4.4  Mpps | 5.8  Mpps

Close | TX   | 6.5 Mpps  | 6.5 Mpps
Far   | TX   | 3.5 Mpps  | 4  Mpps

Improvement is about 30% drop packet rate, 15% tx packet rate for numa
far test.
No degradation for numa close tests.

TCP single/multi cpu/stream:
NUMA  | #cpu | Before  | After
--------------------------------------
Close | 1    | 18 Gbps | 18 Gbps
Far   | 1    | 15 Gbps | 18 Gbps
Close | 12   | 80 Gbps | 80 Gbps
Far   | 12   | 68 Gbps | 80 Gbps

In all test cases we see improvement for the far numa case, and no
impact on the close numa case.

The impact of adding a check per page is very negligible, and shows no
performance degradation whatsoever, also functionality wise it seems more
correct and more robust for page pool to verify when pages should be
recycled, since page pool can't guarantee where pages are coming from.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent bc836748

net/core/page_pool.c

+13 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ static bool __page_pool_recycle_direct(struct page *page,
		return true;
		}

		/* page is NOT reusable when:
		* 1) allocated when system is under some pressure. (page_is_pfmemalloc)
		* 2) belongs to a different NUMA node than pool->p.nid.
		*
		* To update pool->p.nid users must call page_pool_update_nid.
		*/
		static bool pool_page_reusable(struct page_pool pool, struct page page)
		{
		return !page_is_pfmemalloc(page) && page_to_nid(page) == pool->p.nid;
		}

		void __page_pool_put_page(struct page_pool *pool,
		struct page *page, bool allow_direct)
		{
		@@ -290,7 +301,8 @@ void __page_pool_put_page(struct page_pool *pool,
		*
		* refcnt == 1 means page_pool owns page, and can recycle it.
		*/
		if (likely(page_ref_count(page) == 1)) {
		if (likely(page_ref_count(page) == 1 &&
		pool_page_reusable(pool, page))) {
		/* Read barrier done in page_ref_count / READ_ONCE */

		if (allow_direct && in_serving_softirq())

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