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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 gustavold@gmail.com, asantostc@gmail.com,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	 kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH 6/9] netconsole: move skb_pool / refill_wq from struct netpoll to netconsole_target
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 09:12:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260524-netconsole_move_more-v1-6-909d1ab398b4@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260524-netconsole_move_more-v1-0-909d1ab398b4@debian.org>

These two fields back the fallback skb pool that find_skb() uses.
Every helper that touches them lives in netconsole now (refill_skbs,
refill_skbs_work_handler, netconsole_skb_pool_init,
netconsole_skb_pool_flush, find_skb), so the data can move alongside
its only consumer.

Add skb_pool and refill_wq to struct netconsole_target, drop them
from struct netpoll, and update the helpers and find_skb() to take
a struct netconsole_target * and reach the pool through nt-> rather
than np->. Thread nt through netpoll_send_udp() so its only caller
in send_udp() can pass nt directly.

struct netpoll shrinks by sizeof(sk_buff_head) + sizeof(work_struct)
for every consumer, including bonding, bridge, team, vlan, macvlan
and dsa, which carried the fields as dead weight.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 include/linux/netpoll.h  |  2 --
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index a8ced60bef7a..b8b1608d09e9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ enum target_state {
  *		remote_mac	(read-write)
  * @buf:	The buffer used to send the full msg to the network stack
  * @resume_wq:	Workqueue to resume deactivated target
+ * @skb_pool:	Per-target fallback skb pool consulted by find_skb() when
+ *		its GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails. Lifetime brackets a
+ *		successful netpoll_setup() / netpoll_cleanup() pair on @np.
+ * @refill_wq:	Work item that asynchronously tops @skb_pool back up to
+ *		MAX_SKBS after find_skb() drains an entry.
  */
 struct netconsole_target {
 	struct list_head	list;
@@ -206,6 +211,8 @@ struct netconsole_target {
 	/* protected by target_list_lock */
 	char			buf[MAX_PRINT_CHUNK];
 	struct work_struct	resume_wq;
+	struct sk_buff_head	skb_pool;
+	struct work_struct	refill_wq;
 };
 
 #ifdef	CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
@@ -296,13 +303,11 @@ static bool bound_by_mac(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 	return is_valid_ether_addr(nt->np.dev_mac);
 }
 
-static void refill_skbs(struct netpoll *np)
+static void refill_skbs(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 {
-	struct sk_buff_head *skb_pool;
+	struct sk_buff_head *skb_pool = &nt->skb_pool;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-	skb_pool = &np->skb_pool;
-
 	while (READ_ONCE(skb_pool->qlen) < MAX_SKBS) {
 		skb = alloc_skb(MAX_SKB_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!skb)
@@ -314,10 +319,10 @@ static void refill_skbs(struct netpoll *np)
 
 static void refill_skbs_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	struct netpoll *np =
-		container_of(work, struct netpoll, refill_wq);
+	struct netconsole_target *nt =
+		container_of(work, struct netconsole_target, refill_wq);
 
-	refill_skbs(np);
+	refill_skbs(nt);
 }
 
 /* Initialise the per-target skb pool that find_skb() falls back to and
@@ -326,17 +331,15 @@ static void refill_skbs_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
  */
 static void netconsole_skb_pool_init(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 {
-	skb_queue_head_init(&nt->np.skb_pool);
-	INIT_WORK(&nt->np.refill_wq, refill_skbs_work_handler);
-	refill_skbs(&nt->np);
+	skb_queue_head_init(&nt->skb_pool);
+	INIT_WORK(&nt->refill_wq, refill_skbs_work_handler);
+	refill_skbs(nt);
 }
 
 static void netconsole_skb_pool_flush(struct netconsole_target *nt)
 {
-	struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
-
-	cancel_work_sync(&np->refill_wq);
-	skb_queue_purge_reason(&np->skb_pool, SKB_CONSUMED);
+	cancel_work_sync(&nt->refill_wq);
+	skb_queue_purge_reason(&nt->skb_pool, SKB_CONSUMED);
 }
 
 /* Attempts to resume logging to a deactivated target. */
@@ -1731,8 +1734,10 @@ static struct notifier_block netconsole_netdev_notifier = {
 	.notifier_call  = netconsole_netdev_event,
 };
 
-static struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netpoll *np, int len, int reserve)
+static struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netconsole_target *nt, int len,
+				int reserve)
 {
+	struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
 	int count = 0;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
@@ -1741,8 +1746,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *find_skb(struct netpoll *np, int len, int reserve)
 
 	skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!skb) {
-		skb = skb_dequeue(&np->skb_pool);
-		schedule_work(&np->refill_wq);
+		skb = skb_dequeue(&nt->skb_pool);
+		schedule_work(&nt->refill_wq);
 	}
 
 	if (!skb) {
@@ -1865,8 +1870,10 @@ static void push_ipv6(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
 	skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IPV6);
 }
 
-static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len)
+static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
+			    int len)
 {
+	struct netpoll *np = &nt->np;
 	int total_len, ip_len, udp_len;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
@@ -1881,7 +1888,7 @@ static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len)
 
 	total_len = ip_len + LL_RESERVED_SPACE(np->dev);
 
-	skb = find_skb(np, total_len + np->dev->needed_tailroom,
+	skb = find_skb(nt, total_len + np->dev->needed_tailroom,
 		       total_len - len);
 	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1912,7 +1919,7 @@ static int netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len)
  */
 static void send_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg, int len)
 {
-	int result = netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, msg, len);
+	int result = netpoll_send_udp(nt, msg, len);
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC)) {
 		if (result == NET_XMIT_DROP) {
diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index e4b8f1f91e54..8344454df05d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ struct netpoll {
 	bool ipv6;
 	u16 local_port, remote_port;
 	u8 remote_mac[ETH_ALEN];
-	struct sk_buff_head skb_pool;
-	struct work_struct refill_wq;
 };
 
 #define np_info(np, fmt, ...)				\

-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-24 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-24 16:12 [PATCH 0/9] netconsole: stop charging every netpoll user for netconsole-only state Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/9] netpoll: export refill_skbs(), refill_skbs_work_handler(), skb_pool_flush() Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/9] netconsole: take over skb pool lifecycle from netpoll Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 3/9] netconsole: move refill_skbs_work_handler() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 4/9] netconsole: move refill_skbs() and skb-pool sizing macros " Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 5/9] netconsole: move skb_pool_flush() " Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 7/9] netconsole: move local_port from struct netpoll to netconsole_target Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 8/9] netconsole: move remote_port " Breno Leitao
2026-05-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 9/9] netconsole: move remote_mac " Breno Leitao
2026-05-27  2:00 ` [PATCH 0/9] netconsole: stop charging every netpoll user for netconsole-only state Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-27  9:07   ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-27 13:22     ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-27 22:59       ` Jakub Kicinski

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