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Commit 8f0504a9 authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: cpumap do bulk allocation of SKBs



As cpumap now batch consume xdp_frame's from the ptr_ring, it knows how many
SKBs it need to allocate. Thus, lets bulk allocate these SKBs via
kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() API, and use the previously introduced function
build_skb_around().

Notice that the flag __GFP_ZERO asks the slab/slub allocator to clear the
memory for us. This does clear a larger area than needed, but my micro
benchmarks on Intel CPUs show that this is slightly faster due to being a
cacheline aligned area is cleared for the SKBs. (For SLUB allocator, there
is a future optimization potential, because SKBs will with high probability
originate from same page. If we can find/identify continuous memory areas
then the Intel CPU memset rep stos will have a real performance gain.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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