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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 15:11:18 +0100
From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>
To: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@...wei.com>
CC: <mst@...hat.com>, <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
	<jasowang@...hat.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <bjorn@...nel.org>,
	<magnus.karlsson@...el.com>, <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<virtualization@...ts.linux.dev>, <xudingke@...wei.com>,
	<liwei395@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] tun: AF_XDP Tx zero-copy support

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 07:05:56PM +0800, Yunjian Wang wrote:
> This patch set allows TUN to support the AF_XDP Tx zero-copy feature,
> which can significantly reduce CPU utilization for XDP programs.

Why no Rx ZC support though? What will happen if I try rxdrop xdpsock
against tun with this patch? You clearly allow for that.

> 
> Since commit fc72d1d54dd9 ("tuntap: XDP transmission"), the pointer
> ring has been utilized to queue different types of pointers by encoding
> the type into the lower bits. Therefore, we introduce a new flag,
> TUN_XDP_DESC_FLAG(0x2UL), which allows us to enqueue XDP descriptors
> and differentiate them from XDP buffers and sk_buffs. Additionally, a
> spin lock is added for enabling and disabling operations on the xsk pool.
> 
> The performance testing was performed on a Intel E5-2620 2.40GHz machine.
> Traffic were generated/send through TUN(testpmd txonly with AF_XDP)
> to VM (testpmd rxonly in guest).
> 
> +------+---------+---------+---------+
> |      |   copy  |zero-copy| speedup |
> +------+---------+---------+---------+
> | UDP  |   Mpps  |   Mpps  |    %    |
> | 64   |   2.5   |   4.0   |   60%   |
> | 512  |   2.1   |   3.6   |   71%   |
> | 1024 |   1.9   |   3.3   |   73%   |
> +------+---------+---------+---------+
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/tun.c      | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/vhost/net.c    |   4 +
>  include/linux/if_tun.h |  32 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

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