Re: [PATCH net-next] page pool: not return page to alloc cache during pool destruction

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Jakub,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 07:20, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:36:45 +0800 Liang Chen wrote:
> > When destroying a page pool, the alloc cache and recycle ring are emptied.
> > If there are inflight pages, the retry process will periodically check the
> > recycle ring for recently returned pages, but not the alloc cache (alloc
> > cache is only emptied once). As a result, any pages returned to the alloc
> > cache after the page pool destruction will be stuck there and cause the
> > retry process to continuously look for inflight pages and report warnings.
> >
> > To safeguard against this situation, any pages returning to the alloc cache
> > after pool destruction should be prevented.
>
> Let's hear from the page pool maintainers but I think the driver
> is supposed to prevent allocations while pool is getting destroyed.
> Perhaps we can add DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE() for this condition to
> prevent wasting cycles in production builds?

Yes the driver is supposed to do that, but OTOH I generally prefer
APIs that don't allow people to shoot themselves in the foot.  IIRC
this check run in fast path only in XDP mode right?  If this doesn't
affect performance,  I don't have any objections.  Jesper was trying
to refactor the destruction path, perhaps there's something in this
that affects his code?

Thanks
/Ilias