Re: [RFC PATCH v3 01/11] virtio/vsock: rework packet allocation logic

[Bobby Eshleman]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 07:36:02PM +0000, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
> To support zerocopy receive, packet's buffer allocation is changed: for
> buffers which could be mapped to user's vma we can't use 'kmalloc()'(as
> kernel restricts to map slab pages to user's vma) and raw buddy
> allocator now called. But, for tx packets(such packets won't be mapped
> to user), previous 'kmalloc()' way is used, but with special flag in
> packet's structure which allows to distinguish between 'kmalloc()' and
> raw pages buffers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hey Arseniy, great work here!

> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vsock.c                   |  1 +
>  include/linux/virtio_vsock.h            |  1 +
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c        |  8 ++++++--
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> index 5703775af129..65475d128a1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
> @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ vhost_vsock_alloc_pkt(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
>  
> +	pkt->slab_buf = true;
>  	pkt->buf_len = pkt->len;
>  
>  	nbytes = copy_from_iter(pkt->buf, pkt->len, &iov_iter);
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> index 35d7eedb5e8e..d02cb7aa922f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_vsock.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ struct virtio_vsock_pkt {
>  	u32 off;
>  	bool reply;
>  	bool tap_delivered;
> +	bool slab_buf;
>  };

WRT the sk_buff series, I bet this bool will not be needed after the
rebase.

>  
>  struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info {
> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> index ad64f403536a..19909c1e9ba3 100644
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> @@ -255,16 +255,20 @@ static void virtio_vsock_rx_fill(struct virtio_vsock *vsock)
>  	vq = vsock->vqs[VSOCK_VQ_RX];
>  
>  	do {
> +		struct page *buf_page;
> +
>  		pkt = kzalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!pkt)
>  			break;
>  
> -		pkt->buf = kmalloc(buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!pkt->buf) {
> +		buf_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +		if (!buf_page) {

I think it should not be too hard to use build_skb() around the page
here after rebasing onto the sk_buff series.

>  			virtio_transport_free_pkt(pkt);
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> +		pkt->buf = page_to_virt(buf_page);
>  		pkt->buf_len = buf_len;
>  		pkt->len = buf_len;
>  
> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> index a9980e9b9304..37e8dbfe2f5d 100644
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ virtio_transport_alloc_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *info,
>  		if (!pkt->buf)
>  			goto out_pkt;
>  
> +		pkt->slab_buf = true;
>  		pkt->buf_len = len;
>  
>  		err = memcpy_from_msg(pkt->buf, info->msg, len);
> @@ -1339,7 +1340,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_transport_recv_pkt);
>  
>  void virtio_transport_free_pkt(struct virtio_vsock_pkt *pkt)
>  {
> -	kvfree(pkt->buf);
> +	if (pkt->buf_len) {
> +		if (pkt->slab_buf)
> +			kvfree(pkt->buf);
> +		else
> +			free_pages((unsigned long)pkt->buf,
> +				   get_order(pkt->buf_len));
> +	}
> +
>  	kfree(pkt);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_transport_free_pkt);
> -- 
> 2.35.0