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authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2025-07-17 12:01:11 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-28 17:28:25 +0300
commitc2bdb45f366a90dab68e08a95fb0762ad76a9f68 (patch)
tree9fda884d248e5fe616116f57198a589355c70aee /include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
parentbc9ef9783c6bd10518103c8924088879606fe9f4 (diff)
downloadlinux-c2bdb45f366a90dab68e08a95fb0762ad76a9f68.tar.xz
vsock/virtio: Resize receive buffers so that each SKB fits in a 4K page
[ Upstream commit 03a92f036a04fed2b00d69f5f46f1a486e70dc5c ] When allocating receive buffers for the vsock virtio RX virtqueue, an SKB is allocated with a 4140 data payload (the 44-byte packet header + VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE). Even when factoring in the SKB overhead, the resulting 8KiB allocation thanks to the rounding in kmalloc_reserve() is wasteful (~3700 unusable bytes) and results in a higher-order page allocation on systems with 4KiB pages just for the sake of a few hundred bytes of packet data. Limit the vsock virtio RX buffers to 4KiB per SKB, resulting in much better memory utilisation and removing the need to allocate higher-order pages entirely. Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-5-will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/virtio_vsock.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/virtio_vsock.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
index fbf30721bac9..5148b035a8f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
@@ -110,7 +110,12 @@ static inline size_t virtio_vsock_skb_len(struct sk_buff *skb)
return (size_t)(skb_end_pointer(skb) - skb->head);
}
-#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE (1024 * 4)
+/* Dimension the RX SKB so that the entire thing fits exactly into
+ * a single 4KiB page. This avoids wasting memory due to alloc_skb()
+ * rounding up to the next page order and also means that we
+ * don't leave higher-order pages sitting around in the RX queue.
+ */
+#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_DEFAULT_RX_BUF_SIZE SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024 * 4)
#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_BUF_SIZE 0xFFFFFFFFUL
#define VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE (1024 * 64)