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net: Introduce {netdev,napi}_alloc_frag_align()
authorKevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:56:36 +0000 (18:56 +0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 6 Feb 2021 19:57:28 +0000 (11:57 -0800)
commit46f5ab63645ee56d22fd4021d0409d2416560199
treef569d71fb1d091a294c3a129bb08bb42c316b1f5
parent5d3ed24682eeb2d7264ca66017c57f307534c8b5
net: Introduce {netdev,napi}_alloc_frag_align()

In the current implementation of {netdev,napi}_alloc_frag(), it doesn't
have any align guarantee for the returned buffer address, But for some
hardwares they do require the DMA buffer to be aligned correctly,
so we would have to use some workarounds like below if the buffers
allocated by the {netdev,napi}_alloc_frag() are used by these hardwares
for DMA.
    buf = napi_alloc_frag(really_needed_size + align);
    buf = PTR_ALIGN(buf, align);

These codes seems ugly and would waste a lot of memories if the buffers
are used in a network driver for the TX/RX. We have added the align
support for the page_frag functions, so add the corresponding
{netdev,napi}_frag functions.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/core/skbuff.c