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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:26:03 +0200 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com> To: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org> Cc: grygorii.strashko@...com, hawk@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, ast@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org, ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, john.fastabend@...il.com, brouer@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 6/6] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: add XDP support On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:23:48 +0300 Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org> wrote: > Add XDP support based on rx page_pool allocator, one frame per page. > Page pool allocator is used with assumption that only one rx_handler > is running simultaneously. DMA map/unmap is reused from page pool > despite there is no need to map whole page. > > Due to specific of cpsw, the same TX/RX handler can be used by 2 > network devices, so special fields in buffer are added to identify > an interface the frame is destined to. Thus XDP works for both > interfaces, that allows to test xdp redirect between two interfaces > easily. Aslo, each rx queue have own page pools, but common for both > netdevs. Looking at the details what happen when a single RX-queue can receive into multiple net_device'es. I realize that this driver will violate/kill some of the "hidden"/implicit RX-bulking that the XDP_REDIRECT code depend on for performance. Specifically, it violate this assumption: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.2-rc7/kernel/bpf/devmap.c#L324-L329 /* Ingress dev_rx will be the same for all xdp_frame's in * bulk_queue, because bq stored per-CPU and must be flushed * from net_device drivers NAPI func end. */ if (!bq->dev_rx) bq->dev_rx = dev_rx; This drivers "NAPI func end", can have received into multiple net_devices, before it's NAPI cycle ends. Thus, violating this code assumption. Knowing all xdp_frame's in the bulk queue is from the same net_device, can be used to further optimize XDP. E.g. the dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit() call don't take fully advantage of this, yet. If we merge this driver, it will block optimizations in this area. NACK -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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