Hi Willy, Dave, et al., I've been looking at how to make pipes handle the splicing in of multipage folios and also looking to see if I could implement a suggestion from Willy that pipe_buffers could perhaps hold a list of pages (which could make splicing simpler - an entire splice segment would go in a single pipe_buffer). There are a couple of issues here: (1) Gifting/stealing a multipage folio is really tricky. I think that if a multipage folio if gifted, the gift flag should be quietly dropped. Userspace has no control over what splice() and vmsplice() will see in the pagecache. (2) The sendpage op expects to be given a single page and various network protocols just attach that to a socket buffer. This patchset aims to deal with the second by removing the ->sendpage() operation and replacing it with sendmsg() and a new internal flag MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. As sendmsg() takes an I/O iterator, this also affords the opportunity to pass a slew of pages in one go, rather than one at a time. If MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is set, the protocol sendmsg() instance will attempt to splice the pages out of the buffer, copying into individual fragments those that it can't (e.g. because they belong to the slab). The patchset consists of the following parts: (1) A couple of fixes. (2) Define the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES flag. (3) The page_frag_alloc_align() allocator is overhauled: (a) Split it out from mm/page_alloc.c into its own file, mm/page_frag_alloc.c. (b) Make it use multipage folios rather than compound pages. (c) Give it per-cpu buckets to allocate from so no locking is required. (d) The netdev_alloc_cache and the napi fragment cache are then cast in terms of this and some private allocators are removed. I'm not sure that the existing allocator is 100% multithread safe. (4) Implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support in TCP. (5) Make MSG_SPLICE_PAGES copy unspliceable pages (eg. slab pages). (6) Make do_tcp_sendpages() just wrap sendmsg() and then fold it in to its various callers. (7) Implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support in IP and make udp_sendpage() just a wrapper around sendmsg(). (8) Make IP/UDP copy unspliceable pages. (9) Implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support in AF_UNIX. (10) Make AF_UNIX copy unspliceable pages. (11) Make AF_ALG use netfs_extract_iter_to_sg(). (12) Make AF_ALG implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and make af_alg_sendpage() just a wrapper around sendmsg(). (13) Make AF_ALG/hash implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. (14) Make TLS implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES and make its sendpage implementations just a wrapper. [!] Note that tls_sw_sendpage_locked() appears to have the wrong locking upstream. I think the caller will only hold the socket lock, but it should hold tls_ctx->tx_lock too. (15) Make Chelsio's chtls implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. (16) Make AF_KCM implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. (17) Rename pipe_to_sendpage() to pipe_to_sendmsg() and make it a wrapper around sendmsg(). (18) Replace splice_to_socket() with an implementation that doesn't use splice_from_pipe() to push one page at a time, but rather something that splices up to 16 pages at once. This absorbs pipe_to_sendmsg(). (19) Remove sendpage file operation. (20) Convert siw, ceph, iscsi and tcp_bpf to use sendmsg() instead of tcp_sendpage(). (21) Make skb_send_sock() use sendmsg(). (22) Convert ceph, rds, dlm, sunrpc, nvme, kcm, smc, ocfs2 and drbd to use sendmsg(). (23) Make drbd delegate copying of slab pages to TCP and pass an entire bio's bvec to sendmsg at a time. Delegate copying of unspliceable pages to TCP. (24) Remove the sendpage socket operation. I've killed off all uses of kernel_sendpage() and all uses of sendpage_ok() outside of the protocols. I have tested AF_UNIX splicing - which, surprisingly, seems nearly twice as fast - TCP splicing, the siw driver (softIWarp RDMA with nfs and cifs), sunrpc (with nfsd), UDP (using a patched rxrpc) and TLS/sw. I've pushed the patches here also: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=iov-sendpage David Changes ======= ver #3) - Dropped the iterator-of-iterators patch. - Only expunge MSG_SPLICE_PAGES in sys_send[m]msg, not sys_recv[m]msg. - Split MSG_SPLICE_PAGES code in __ip_append_data() out into helper functions. - Implement MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support in __ip6_append_data() using the above helper functions. - Rename 'xlength' to 'initial_length'. - Minimise the changes to sunrpc for the moment. - Don't give -EOPNOTSUPP if NETIF_F_SG not available, just copy instead. - Implemented MSG_SPLICE_PAGES support in the TLS, Chelsio-TLS and AF_KCM code. ver #2) - Overhauled the page_frag_alloc() allocator: large folios and per-cpu. - Got rid of my own zerocopy allocator. - Use iov_iter_extract_pages() rather poking in iter->bvec. - Made page splicing fall back to page copying on a page-by-page basis. - Made splice_to_socket() pass 16 pipe buffers at a time. - Made AF_ALG/hash use finup/digest where possible in sendmsg. - Added an iterator-of-iterators, ITER_ITERLIST. - Made sunrpc use the iterator-of-iterators. - Converted more drivers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316152618.711970-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329141354.516864-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ # v2 David Howells (55): netfs: Fix netfs_extract_iter_to_sg() for ITER_UBUF/IOVEC iov_iter: Remove last_offset member net: Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES internal sendmsg() flag mm: Move the page fragment allocator from page_alloc.c into its own file mm: Make the page_frag_cache allocator use multipage folios mm: Make the page_frag_cache allocator use per-cpu tcp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tcp: Make sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) copy unspliceable data tcp: Convert do_tcp_sendpages() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tcp_bpf: Inline do_tcp_sendpages as it's now a wrapper around tcp_sendmsg espintcp: Inline do_tcp_sendpages() tls: Inline do_tcp_sendpages() siw: Inline do_tcp_sendpages() tcp: Fold do_tcp_sendpages() into tcp_sendpage_locked() ip, udp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES ip, udp: Make sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) copy unspliceable data ip6, udp6: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES udp: Convert udp_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES af_unix: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES af_unix: Make sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) copy unspliceable data crypto: af_alg: Pin pages rather than ref'ing if appropriate crypto: af_alg: Use netfs_extract_iter_to_sg() to create scatterlists crypto: af_alg: Indent the loop in af_alg_sendmsg() crypto: af_alg: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES crypto: af_alg: Convert af_alg_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES crypto: af_alg/hash: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tls/device: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tls/device: Convert tls_device_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tls/sw: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES tls/sw: Convert tls_sw_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES chelsio: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES chelsio: Convert chtls_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES kcm: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES kcm: Convert kcm_sendpage() to use MSG_SPLICE_PAGES splice, net: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than ->sendpage() splice, net: Reimplement splice_to_socket() to pass multiple bufs to sendmsg() Remove file->f_op->sendpage siw: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage to transmit ceph: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage iscsi: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage iscsi: Assume "sendpage" is okay in iscsi_tcp_segment_map() tcp_bpf: Make tcp_bpf_sendpage() go through tcp_bpf_sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) net: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) not sendpage in skb_send_sock() algif: Remove hash_sendpage*() ceph: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage() rds: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage dlm: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage sunrpc: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage nvme: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage kcm: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather then sendpage smc: Drop smc_sendpage() in favour of smc_sendmsg() + MSG_SPLICE_PAGES ocfs2: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendpage() drbd: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than sendmsg() drdb: Send an entire bio in a single sendmsg sock: Remove ->sendpage*() in favour of sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) Documentation/networking/scaling.rst | 4 +- crypto/Kconfig | 1 + crypto/af_alg.c | 194 +++++-------- crypto/algif_aead.c | 52 ++-- crypto/algif_hash.c | 171 +++++------ crypto/algif_rng.c | 2 - crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 24 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 86 ++---- drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_qp_tx.c | 227 +++------------ .../chelsio/inline_crypto/chtls/chtls.h | 2 - .../chelsio/inline_crypto/chtls/chtls_io.c | 169 ++++------- .../chelsio/inline_crypto/chtls/chtls_main.c | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_wed_wo.c | 19 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_wed_wo.h | 2 - drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 63 ++-- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 69 +++-- drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 31 +- drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.h | 2 +- drivers/scsi/libiscsi_tcp.c | 13 +- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 14 +- fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 10 +- fs/netfs/iterator.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c | 107 +++---- fs/splice.c | 158 ++++++++-- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 7 +- include/linux/fs.h | 3 - include/linux/gfp.h | 17 +- include/linux/mm_types.h | 13 +- include/linux/net.h | 8 - include/linux/socket.h | 3 + include/linux/splice.h | 2 + include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 11 +- include/linux/uio.h | 5 +- include/net/inet_common.h | 2 - include/net/ip.h | 4 + include/net/sock.h | 6 - include/net/tcp.h | 2 - include/net/tls.h | 2 +- mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 126 -------- mm/page_frag_alloc.c | 201 +++++++++++++ net/appletalk/ddp.c | 1 - net/atm/pvc.c | 1 - net/atm/svc.c | 1 - net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 1 - net/caif/caif_socket.c | 2 - net/can/bcm.c | 1 - net/can/isotp.c | 1 - net/can/j1939/socket.c | 1 - net/can/raw.c | 1 - net/ceph/messenger_v1.c | 58 ++-- net/ceph/messenger_v2.c | 89 ++---- net/core/skbuff.c | 81 +++--- net/core/sock.c | 35 +-- net/dccp/ipv4.c | 1 - net/dccp/ipv6.c | 1 - net/ieee802154/socket.c | 2 - net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 21 -- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 122 +++++++- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 274 ++++++------------ net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c | 72 +---- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 1 - net/ipv4/udp.c | 54 ---- net/ipv4/udp_impl.h | 2 - net/ipv4/udplite.c | 1 - net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 3 - net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 28 +- net/ipv6/raw.c | 1 - net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 - net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 249 ++++++---------- net/key/af_key.c | 1 - net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c | 1 - net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c | 1 - net/llc/af_llc.c | 1 - net/mctp/af_mctp.c | 1 - net/mptcp/protocol.c | 2 - net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 1 - net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 1 - net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 - net/phonet/socket.c | 2 - net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c | 1 - net/rds/af_rds.c | 1 - net/rds/tcp_send.c | 86 +++--- net/rose/af_rose.c | 1 - net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 1 - net/sctp/protocol.c | 1 - net/smc/af_smc.c | 29 -- net/smc/smc_stats.c | 2 +- net/smc/smc_stats.h | 1 - net/smc/smc_tx.c | 16 - net/smc/smc_tx.h | 2 - net/socket.c | 76 +---- net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 38 +-- net/tipc/socket.c | 3 - net/tls/tls_device.c | 91 +++--- net/tls/tls_main.c | 31 +- net/tls/tls_sw.c | 215 ++++++-------- net/unix/af_unix.c | 254 +++++++--------- net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 3 - net/x25/af_x25.c | 1 - net/xdp/xsk.c | 1 - net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 10 +- 102 files changed, 1519 insertions(+), 2301 deletions(-) create mode 100644 mm/page_frag_alloc.c