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The Page Pool API improves bandwidth and CPU overhead by recycling pages instead of allocating new buffers in the driver. Make use of page pool fragment allocation for smaller MTUs so that multiple packets can share a page. For MTUs larger than PAGE_SIZE, adjust the 'order' page parameter so that contiguous pages can be used to receive the larger packets. The RQ descriptor field 'os_buf' is repurposed to hold page pointers allocated from page_pool instead of SKBs. When packets arrive, SKBs are allocated and the page pointers are attached instead of preallocating SKBs. 'alloc_fail' netdev statistic is incremented when page_pool_dev_alloc() fails. Co-developed-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Nelson Escobar <neescoba@cisco.com> Co-developed-by: Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Satish Kharat <satishkh@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: John Daley <johndale@cisco.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250205235416.25410-4-johndale@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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 reStructuredText markup notation.
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.