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Need a fast page recycle mechanism for ndo_xdp_xmit API for returning pages on DMA-TX completion time, which have good cross CPU performance, given DMA-TX completion time can happen on a remote CPU. Refurbish my page_pool code, that was presented[1] at MM-summit 2016. Adapted page_pool code to not depend the page allocator and integration into struct page. The DMA mapping feature is kept, even-though it will not be activated/used in this patchset. [1] http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/MM-summit2016/generic_page_pool_mm_summit2016.pdf V2: Adjustments requested by Tariq - Changed page_pool_create return codes, don't return NULL, only ERR_PTR, as this simplifies err handling in drivers. V4: many small improvements and cleanups - Add DOC comment section, that can be used by kernel-doc - Improve fallback mode, to work better with refcnt based recycling e.g. remove a WARN as pointed out by Tariq e.g. quicker fallback if ptr_ring is empty. V5: Fixed SPDX license as pointed out by Alexei V6: Adjustments requested by Eric Dumazet - Adjust ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp usage/placement - Move rcu_head in struct page_pool - Free pages quicker on destroy, minimize resources delayed an RCU period - Remove code for forward/backward compat ABI interface V8: Issues found by kbuild test robot - Address sparse should be static warnings - Only compile+link when a driver use/select page_pool, mlx5 selects CONFIG_PAGE_POOL, although its first used in two patches Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.