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vsock/virtio: Allocate nonlinear SKBs for handling large transmit buffers
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:01:16 +0000 (10:01 +0100)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:11:09 +0000 (09:11 -0400)
When transmitting a vsock packet, virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() calls
virtio_transport_alloc_linear_skb() to allocate and fill SKBs with the
transmit data. Unfortunately, these are always linear allocations and
can therefore result in significant pressure on kmalloc() considering
that the maximum packet size (VIRTIO_VSOCK_MAX_PKT_BUF_SIZE +
VIRTIO_VSOCK_SKB_HEADROOM) is a little over 64KiB, resulting in a 128KiB
allocation for each packet.

Rework the vsock SKB allocation so that, for sizes with page order
greater than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, a nonlinear SKB is allocated
instead with the packet header in the SKB and the transmit data in the
fragments. Note that this affects both the vhost and virtio transports.

Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20250717090116.11987-10-will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c

index c9eb7f7ac00d27061735b061c3b7913ad7db2231..fe92e5fa95b4d36cde89839c45cfa68f2d27b804 100644 (file)
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ static int virtio_transport_fill_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
                return __zerocopy_sg_from_iter(info->msg, NULL, skb,
                                               &info->msg->msg_iter, len, NULL);
 
-       return memcpy_from_msg(skb_put(skb, len), info->msg, len);
+       virtio_vsock_skb_put(skb, len);
+       return skb_copy_datagram_from_iter(skb, 0, &info->msg->msg_iter, len);
 }
 
 static void virtio_transport_init_hdr(struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -261,7 +262,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *virtio_transport_alloc_skb(struct virtio_vsock_pkt_info *
        if (!zcopy)
                skb_len += payload_len;
 
-       skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+       skb = virtio_vsock_alloc_skb(skb_len, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!skb)
                return NULL;