Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: page_pool: use alloc_pages_bulk in refill code path

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:15:22 +0200 Ilias Apalodimas wrote: > Hi Jesper, > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:56:46PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > > There are cases where the page_pool need to refill with pages from the > > page allocator. Some workloads cause the page_pool to release pages

Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: page_pool: use alloc_pages_bulk in refill code path

Hi Jesper, On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:56:46PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > There are cases where the page_pool need to refill with pages from the > page allocator. Some workloads cause the page_pool to release pages > instead of recycling these pages. > > For these workload it can impr

[PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: page_pool: use alloc_pages_bulk in refill code path

There are cases where the page_pool need to refill with pages from the page allocator. Some workloads cause the page_pool to release pages instead of recycling these pages. For these workload it can improve performance to bulk alloc pages from the page-allocator to refill the alloc cache. For XDP