linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] netdev attribute to control xdpgeneric skb linearization

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Message-ID: <20200228133054.47cc4d71@carbon>
Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:30:54 +0100
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:     Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@...gle.com>
Cc:     brouer@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, toke@...hat.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, sameehj@...zon.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] netdev attribute to control xdpgeneric skb
 linearization

On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 02:54:35 -0800
Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@...gle.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index dbbfff123196..c539489d3166 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -4520,9 +4520,12 @@ static u32 netif_receive_generic_xdp(struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	/* XDP packets must be linear and must have sufficient headroom
>  	 * of XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM bytes. This is the guarantee that also
>  	 * native XDP provides, thus we need to do it here as well.
> +	 * For non shared skbs, xdpgeneric_linearize controls linearization.
>  	 */
> -	if (skb_cloned(skb) || skb_is_nonlinear(skb) ||
> -	    skb_headroom(skb) < XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM) {
> +	if (skb_cloned(skb) ||
> +	    (skb->dev->xdpgeneric_linearize &&
> +	     (skb_is_nonlinear(skb) ||
> +	      skb_headroom(skb) < XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM))) {
>  		int hroom = XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM - skb_headroom(skb);
>  		int troom = skb->tail + skb->data_len - skb->end;

Have you checked that calling bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() is not breaking anything?

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer