On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 08:18:19AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
>
> Both virtio net and napi_get_frags() allocate skbs
> with a very small skb->head
>
> While using page fragments instead of a kmalloc backed skb->head might give
> a small performance improvement in some cases, there is a huge risk of
> under estimating memory usage.
>
> For both GOOD_COPY_LEN and GRO_MAX_HEAD, we can fit at least 32 allocations
> per page (order-3 page in x86), or even 64 on PowerPC
>
> We have been tracking OOM issues on GKE hosts hitting tcp_mem limits
> but consuming far more memory for TCP buffers than instructed in tcp_mem[2]
>
> Even if we force napi_alloc_skb() to only use order-0 pages, the issue
> would still be there on arches with PAGE_SIZE >= 32768
>
> This patch makes sure that small skb head are kmalloc backed, so that
> other objects in the slab page can be reused instead of being held as long
> as skbs are sitting in socket queues.
>
> Note that we might in the future use the sk_buff napi cache,
> instead of going through a more expensive __alloc_skb()
>
> Another idea would be to use separate page sizes depending
> on the allocated length (to never have more than 4 frags per page)
>
> I would like to thank Greg Thelen for his precious help on this matter,
> analysing crash dumps is always a time consuming task.
>
> Fixes: fd11a83dd363 ("net: Pull out core bits of __netdev_alloc_skb and add
> __napi_alloc_skb")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexanderdu...@fb.com>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthe...@google.com>
Better than tweaking virtio code.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
I do hope the sk_buff napi cache idea materializes in the future.
> ---
> net/core/skbuff.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index
> 7626a33cce590e530f36167bd096026916131897..3a8f55a43e6964344df464a27b9b1faa0eb804f3
> 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -501,13 +501,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
> struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len,
> gfp_t gfp_mask)
> {
> - struct napi_alloc_cache *nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache);
> + struct napi_alloc_cache *nc;
> struct sk_buff *skb;
> void *data;
>
> len += NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN;
>
> - if ((len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE)) ||
> + /* If requested length is either too small or too big,
> + * we use kmalloc() for skb->head allocation.
> + */
> + if (len <= SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) ||
> + len > SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(PAGE_SIZE) ||
> (gfp_mask & (__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM | GFP_DMA))) {
> skb = __alloc_skb(len, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
> if (!skb)
> @@ -515,6 +519,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct
> *napi, unsigned int len,
> goto skb_success;
> }
>
> + nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache);
> len += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
> len = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(len);
>
> --
> 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
