netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] xdp: Infrastructure to generalize XDP

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Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:39:40 -0700
From:   Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] xdp: Infrastructure to generalize XDP

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:01:39 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>  >  - Reduces the amount of code and complexity needed in drivers to
>>  >    manage XDP
>>
>> hmm:
>> 534 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
>> looks like increase in complexity instead.
>
> and more to come to tie this with HW offloads.

The amount of driver code did decrease with these patches:

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 64 ++++----------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c     | 25 ++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h   |  1 -

Minimizing complexity being added to drivers for XDP is critical since
we basically asking every driver to replicate the function. This
property also should also apply to HW offloads, the more complexity we
can abstract out drivers into a common backend infrastructure the
better for supporting across different drivers.

Tom