netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 10/11] qede: Add basic XDP support

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Message-ID: <583DC8E8.1060408@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:28:56 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
CC:     Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 10/11] qede: Add basic XDP support

On 11/29/2016 06:10 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:48:50 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 11/29/2016 03:47 PM, Yuval Mintz wrote:
>>> Add support for the ndo_xdp callback. This patch would support XDP_PASS,
>>> XDP_DROP and XDP_ABORTED commands.
>>>
>>> This also adds a per Rx queue statistic which counts number of packets
>>> which didn't reach the stack [due to XDP].
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
>> [...]
>>> @@ -1560,6 +1593,7 @@ static int qede_rx_process_cqe(struct qede_dev *edev,
>>>    			       struct qede_fastpath *fp,
>>>    			       struct qede_rx_queue *rxq)
>>>    {
>>> +	struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog = READ_ONCE(rxq->xdp_prog);
>>>    	struct eth_fast_path_rx_reg_cqe *fp_cqe;
>>>    	u16 len, pad, bd_cons_idx, parse_flag;
>>>    	enum eth_rx_cqe_type cqe_type;
>>> @@ -1596,6 +1630,11 @@ static int qede_rx_process_cqe(struct qede_dev *edev,
>>>    	len = le16_to_cpu(fp_cqe->len_on_first_bd);
>>>    	pad = fp_cqe->placement_offset;
>>>
>>> +	/* Run eBPF program if one is attached */
>>> +	if (xdp_prog)
>>> +		if (!qede_rx_xdp(edev, fp, rxq, xdp_prog, bd, fp_cqe))
>>> +			return 1;
>>> +
>>
>> You also need to wrap this under rcu_read_lock() (at least I haven't seen
>> it in your patches) for same reasons as stated in 326fe02d1ed6 ("net/mlx4_en:
>> protect ring->xdp_prog with rcu_read_lock"), as otherwise xdp_prog could
>> disappear underneath you. mlx4 and nfp does it correctly, looks like mlx5
>> doesn't.
>
> My understanding was that Yuval is always doing full stop()/start() so
> there should be no RX packets in flight while the XDP prog is being
> changed.  But thinking about it again, perhaps is worth adding the

Ohh, true, thanks for pointing this out. I guess I got confused by
the READ_ONCE() then.

> optimization to forego the full qede_reload() in qede_xdp_set() if there
> is a program already loaded and just do the xchg()+put() (and add RCU
> protection on the fast path)?

Would be worth it as a follow-up later on, yes.