linux-kernel - [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/4] xdp: recycle Page Pool backed skbs built from XDP frames

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Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:55:49 +0100
From:   Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
Cc:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
        Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Menglong Dong <imagedong@...cent.com>,
        Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/4] xdp: recycle Page Pool backed skbs built from XDP frames

Yeah, I still remember that "Who needs cpumap nowadays" (c), but anyway.

__xdp_build_skb_from_frame() missed the moment when the networking stack
became able to recycle skb pages backed by a page_pool. This was making
e.g. cpumap redirect even less effective than simple %XDP_PASS. veth was
also affected in some scenarios.
A lot of drivers use skb_mark_for_recycle() already, it's been almost
two years and seems like there are no issues in using it in the generic
code too. {__,}xdp_release_frame() can be then removed as it losts its
last user.
Page Pool becomes then zero-alloc (or almost) in the abovementioned
cases, too. Other memory type models (who needs them at this point)
have no changes.

Some numbers on 1 Xeon Platinum core bombed with 27 Mpps of 64-byte
IPv6 UDP, iavf w/XDP[0] (CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is enabled):

Plain %XDP_PASS on baseline, Page Pool driver:

src cpu Rx     drops  dst cpu Rx
  2.1 Mpps       N/A    2.1 Mpps

cpumap redirect (cross-core, w/o leaving its NUMA node) on baseline:

  6.8 Mpps  5.0 Mpps    1.8 Mpps

cpumap redirect with skb PP recycling:

  7.9 Mpps  5.7 Mpps    2.2 Mpps
                       +22% (from cpumap redir on baseline)

[0] https://github.com/alobakin/linux/commits/iavf-xdp

Alexander Lobakin (4):
  selftests/bpf: robustify test_xdp_do_redirect with more payload magics
  net: page_pool, skbuff: make skb_mark_for_recycle() always available
  xdp: recycle Page Pool backed skbs built from XDP frames
  xdp: remove unused {__,}xdp_release_frame()

 include/linux/skbuff.h                        |  4 +--
 include/net/xdp.h                             | 29 ---------------
 net/core/xdp.c                                | 19 ++--------
 .../bpf/progs/test_xdp_do_redirect.c          | 36 +++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

---
>From v2[1]:
* fix the test_xdp_do_redirect selftest failing after the series: it was
  relying on that %XDP_PASS frames can't be recycled on veth
  (BPF CI, Alexei);
* explain "w/o leaving its node" in the cover letter (Jesper).

>From v1[2]:
* make skb_mark_for_recycle() always available, otherwise there are build
  failures on non-PP systems (kbuild bot);
* 'Page Pool' -> 'page_pool' when it's about a page_pool instance, not
  API (Jesper);
* expanded test system info a bit in the cover letter (Jesper).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230303133232.2546004-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230301160315.1022488-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
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