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Jesper Dangaard Brouer ff7d6b27f8 page_pool: refurbish version of page_pool code
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>
2018-04-17 10:50:29 -04:00
Documentation IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.17 2018-04-11 18:50:41 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch xen: fixes for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 11:04:35 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto MIPS changes for 4.17 2018-04-10 11:39:22 -07:00
drivers page_pool: refurbish version of page_pool code 2018-04-17 10:50:29 -04:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This pull request contains updates for both UBI and UBIFS: 2018-04-11 16:39:34 -07:00
include page_pool: refurbish version of page_pool code 2018-04-17 10:50:29 -04:00
init seq_file: allocate seq_file from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:36 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: shm_split(): remove unneeded test for NULL shm_file_data.vm_ops 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
kernel bpf: cpumap convert to use generic xdp_frame 2018-04-17 10:50:28 -04:00
lib Fix for one swiotlb regression in 2.16 from Takashi. 2018-04-12 11:00:48 -07:00
mm page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
net page_pool: refurbish version of page_pool code 2018-04-17 10:50:29 -04:00
samples remoteproc updates for v4.17 2018-04-10 12:09:27 -07:00
scripts asm-generic fixes for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-12 09:15:48 -07:00
security ipc/msg: introduce msgctl(MSG_STAT_ANY) 2018-04-11 10:28:37 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-10 10:16:04 -07:00
tools selftests: net: add tcp_mmap program 2018-04-16 18:26:37 -04:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 4.17 2018-04-11 16:12:21 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

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.