From e1069bbfcf3bcf4feb264397f3451184fd66b907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Baxter Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:35:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: cdc_ncm: Reduce memory use when kernel memory low MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The CDC-NCM driver can require large amounts of memory to create skb's and this can be a problem when the memory becomes fragmented. This especially affects embedded systems that have constrained resources but wish to maximise the throughput of CDC-NCM with 16KiB NTB's. The issue is after running for a while the kernel memory can become fragmented and it needs compacting. If the NTB allocation is needed before the memory has been compacted the atomic allocation can fail which can cause increased latency, large re-transmissions or disconnections depending upon the data being transmitted at the time. This situation occurs for less than a second until the kernel has compacted the memory but the failed devices can take a lot longer to recover from the failed TX packets. To ease this temporary situation I modified the CDC-NCM TX path to temporarily switch into a reduced memory mode which allocates an NTB that will fit into a USB_CDC_NCM_NTB_MIN_OUT_SIZE (default 2048 Bytes) sized memory block and only transmit NTB's with a single network frame until the memory situation is resolved. Each time this issue occurs we wait for an increasing number of reduced size allocations before requesting a full size one to not put additional pressure on a low memory system. Once the memory is compacted the CDC-NCM data can resume transmitting at the normal tx_max rate once again. Signed-off-by: Jim Baxter Reviewed-by: Bjørn Mork Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c index 2067743..d103a1d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ static const struct cdc_ncm_stats cdc_ncm_gstrings_stats[] = { CDC_NCM_SIMPLE_STAT(rx_ntbs), }; +#define CDC_NCM_LOW_MEM_MAX_CNT 10 + static int cdc_ncm_get_sset_count(struct net_device __always_unused *netdev, int sset) { switch (sset) { @@ -1055,10 +1057,10 @@ static struct usb_cdc_ncm_ndp16 *cdc_ncm_ndp(struct cdc_ncm_ctx *ctx, struct sk_ /* align new NDP */ if (!(ctx->drvflags & CDC_NCM_FLAG_NDP_TO_END)) - cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb, ctx->tx_ndp_modulus, 0, ctx->tx_max); + cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb, ctx->tx_ndp_modulus, 0, ctx->tx_curr_size); /* verify that there is room for the NDP and the datagram (reserve) */ - if ((ctx->tx_max - skb->len - reserve) < ctx->max_ndp_size) + if ((ctx->tx_curr_size - skb->len - reserve) < ctx->max_ndp_size) return NULL; /* link to it */ @@ -1111,13 +1113,41 @@ cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, __le32 sign) /* allocate a new OUT skb */ if (!skb_out) { - skb_out = alloc_skb(ctx->tx_max, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (ctx->tx_low_mem_val == 0) { + ctx->tx_curr_size = ctx->tx_max; + skb_out = alloc_skb(ctx->tx_curr_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + /* If the memory allocation fails we will wait longer + * each time before attempting another full size + * allocation again to not overload the system + * further. + */ + if (skb_out == NULL) { + ctx->tx_low_mem_max_cnt = min(ctx->tx_low_mem_max_cnt + 1, + (unsigned)CDC_NCM_LOW_MEM_MAX_CNT); + ctx->tx_low_mem_val = ctx->tx_low_mem_max_cnt; + } + } if (skb_out == NULL) { - if (skb != NULL) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); - dev->net->stats.tx_dropped++; + /* See if a very small allocation is possible. + * We will send this packet immediately and hope + * that there is more memory available later. + */ + if (skb) + ctx->tx_curr_size = max(skb->len, + (u32)USB_CDC_NCM_NTB_MIN_OUT_SIZE); + else + ctx->tx_curr_size = USB_CDC_NCM_NTB_MIN_OUT_SIZE; + skb_out = alloc_skb(ctx->tx_curr_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + + /* No allocation possible so we will abort */ + if (skb_out == NULL) { + if (skb != NULL) { + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + dev->net->stats.tx_dropped++; + } + goto exit_no_skb; } - goto exit_no_skb; + ctx->tx_low_mem_val--; } /* fill out the initial 16-bit NTB header */ nth16 = skb_put_zero(skb_out, sizeof(struct usb_cdc_ncm_nth16)); @@ -1148,10 +1178,10 @@ cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, __le32 sign) ndp16 = cdc_ncm_ndp(ctx, skb_out, sign, skb->len + ctx->tx_modulus + ctx->tx_remainder); /* align beginning of next frame */ - cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb_out, ctx->tx_modulus, ctx->tx_remainder, ctx->tx_max); + cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb_out, ctx->tx_modulus, ctx->tx_remainder, ctx->tx_curr_size); /* check if we had enough room left for both NDP and frame */ - if (!ndp16 || skb_out->len + skb->len + delayed_ndp_size > ctx->tx_max) { + if (!ndp16 || skb_out->len + skb->len + delayed_ndp_size > ctx->tx_curr_size) { if (n == 0) { /* won't fit, MTU problem? */ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); @@ -1227,7 +1257,7 @@ cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, __le32 sign) /* If requested, put NDP at end of frame. */ if (ctx->drvflags & CDC_NCM_FLAG_NDP_TO_END) { nth16 = (struct usb_cdc_ncm_nth16 *)skb_out->data; - cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb_out, ctx->tx_ndp_modulus, 0, ctx->tx_max); + cdc_ncm_align_tail(skb_out, ctx->tx_ndp_modulus, 0, ctx->tx_curr_size); nth16->wNdpIndex = cpu_to_le16(skb_out->len); skb_put_data(skb_out, ctx->delayed_ndp16, ctx->max_ndp_size); @@ -1246,9 +1276,9 @@ cdc_ncm_fill_tx_frame(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, __le32 sign) */ if (!(dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_SEND_ZLP) && skb_out->len > ctx->min_tx_pkt) { - padding_count = ctx->tx_max - skb_out->len; + padding_count = ctx->tx_curr_size - skb_out->len; skb_put_zero(skb_out, padding_count); - } else if (skb_out->len < ctx->tx_max && + } else if (skb_out->len < ctx->tx_curr_size && (skb_out->len % dev->maxpacket) == 0) { skb_put_u8(skb_out, 0); /* force short packet */ } diff --git a/include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h b/include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h index 00d2324..021f7a8 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h +++ b/include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ struct cdc_ncm_ctx { u32 tx_curr_frame_num; u32 rx_max; u32 tx_max; + u32 tx_curr_size; + u32 tx_low_mem_max_cnt; + u32 tx_low_mem_val; u32 max_datagram_size; u16 tx_max_datagrams; u16 tx_remainder; -- 2.7.4