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In the current codes, the octeontx2 uses its own method to allocate the pool buffers, but there are some issues in this implementation. 1. We have to run the otx2_get_page() for each allocation cycle and this is pretty error prone. As I can see there is no invocation of the otx2_get_page() in otx2_pool_refill_task(), this will leave the allocated pages have the wrong refcount and may be freed wrongly. 2. It wastes memory. For example, if we only receive one packet in a NAPI RX cycle, and then allocate a 2K buffer with otx2_alloc_rbuf() to refill the pool buffers and leave the remain area of the allocated page wasted. On a kernel with 64K page, 62K area is wasted. IMHO it is really unnecessary to implement our own method for the buffers allocate, we can reuse the napi_alloc_frag() to simplify our code. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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