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Commit 5fa4caff authored by Alexander Lobakin's avatar Alexander Lobakin Committed by Tony Nguyen
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iavf: switch to Page Pool



Now that the IAVF driver simply uses dev_alloc_page() + free_page() with
no custom recycling logics, it can easily be switched to using Page
Pool / libeth API instead.
This allows to removing the whole dancing around headroom, HW buffer
size, and page order. All DMA-for-device is now done in the PP core,
for-CPU -- in the libeth helper.
Use skb_mark_for_recycle() to bring back the recycling and restore the
performance. Speaking of performance: on par with the baseline and
faster with the PP optimization series applied. But the memory usage for
1500b MTU is now almost 2x lower (x86_64) thanks to allocating a page
every second descriptor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
parent 97cadd3d
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