On 2024/9/27 17:21, Ilias Apalodimas wrote: > Hi Yunsheng > > On Fri, 27 Sept 2024 at 06:58, Yunsheng Lin <linyunsh...@huawei.com> wrote: >> >> On 2024/9/27 2:15, Mina Almasry wrote: >>> >>>> In order not to do the dma unmmapping after driver has already >>>> unbound and stall the unloading of the networking driver, add >>>> the pool->items array to record all the pages including the ones >>>> which are handed over to network stack, so the page_pool can >>>> do the dma unmmapping for those pages when page_pool_destroy() >>>> is called. >>> >>> One thing I could not understand from looking at the code: if the >>> items array is in the struct page_pool, why do you need to modify the >>> page_pool entry in the struct page and in the struct net_iov? I think >>> the code could be made much simpler if you can remove these changes, >>> and you wouldn't need to modify the public api of the page_pool. >> >> As mentioned in [1]: >> "There is no space in 'struct page' to track the inflight pages, so >> 'pp' in 'struct page' is renamed to 'pp_item' to enable the tracking >> of inflight page" > > I have the same feeling as Mina here. First of all, we do have an > unsigned long in struct page we use for padding IIRC. More
I am assuming you are referring to '_pp_mapping_pad' in 'struct page', unfortunately the field might be used when a page is mmap'ed to user space as my understanding. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.7-rc8/source/include/linux/mm_types.h#L126 > importantly, though, why does struct page need to know about this? > Can't we have the same information in page pool? > When the driver allocates pages it does via page_pool_dev_alloc_XXXXX > or something similar. Cant we do what you suggest here ? IOW when we > allocate a page we put it in a list, and when that page returns to > page_pool (and it's mapped) we remove it. Yes, that is the basic idea, but the important part is how to do that with less performance impact.
