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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 11:41:29 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 10/11] tap: accept an array of XDP buffs through
 sendmsg()



On 2018年09月07日 02:00, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 12:05:25PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> This patch implement TUN_MSG_PTR msg_control type. This type allows
>> the caller to pass an array of XDP buffs to tuntap through ptr field
>> of the tun_msg_control. Tap will build skb through those XDP buffers.
>>
>> This will avoid lots of indirect calls thus improves the icache
>> utilization and allows to do XDP batched flushing when doing XDP
>> redirection.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/tap.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c
>> index 7996ed7cbf18..50eb7bf22225 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/tap.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
>> @@ -1146,14 +1146,83 @@ static const struct file_operations tap_fops = {
>>   #endif
>>   };
>>   
>> +static int tap_get_user_xdp(struct tap_queue *q, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
>> +{
>> +	struct virtio_net_hdr *gso = xdp->data_hard_start + sizeof(int);
>> +	int buflen = *(int *)xdp->data_hard_start;
>> +	int vnet_hdr_len = 0;
>> +	struct tap_dev *tap;
>> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
>> +	int err, depth;
>> +
>> +	if (q->flags & IFF_VNET_HDR)
>> +		vnet_hdr_len = READ_ONCE(q->vnet_hdr_sz);
>> +
>> +	skb = build_skb(xdp->data_hard_start, buflen);
>> +	if (!skb) {
>> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>> +		goto err;
>> +	}
> So fundamentally why is it called XDP?
> We just build and skb, don't we?

The reason is that the function accepts a pointer to XDP. And also the 
for the future development, I think the name is ok:

- we will probably do XDP offloading in this function.
- we may have a chance to call lower device's ndo_xdp_xmit() in the future.

Thanks

>
>> +
>> +	skb_reserve(skb, xdp->data - xdp->data_hard_start);
>> +	skb_put(skb, xdp->data_end - xdp->data);
>> +
>> +	skb_set_network_header(skb, ETH_HLEN);
>> +	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>> +	skb->protocol = eth_hdr(skb)->h_proto;
>> +
>> +	if (vnet_hdr_len) {
>> +		err = virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, gso, tap_is_little_endian(q));
>> +		if (err)
>> +			goto err_kfree;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	skb_probe_transport_header(skb, ETH_HLEN);
>> +
>> +	/* Move network header to the right position for VLAN tagged packets */
>> +	if ((skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_8021Q) ||
>> +	     skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_8021AD)) &&
>> +	    __vlan_get_protocol(skb, skb->protocol, &depth) != 0)
>> +		skb_set_network_header(skb, depth);
>> +
>> +	rcu_read_lock();
>> +	tap = rcu_dereference(q->tap);
>> +	if (tap) {
>> +		skb->dev = tap->dev;
>> +		dev_queue_xmit(skb);
>> +	} else {
>> +		kfree_skb(skb);
>> +	}
>> +	rcu_read_unlock();
>> +
>> +	return 0;
>> +
>> +err_kfree:
>> +	kfree_skb(skb);
>> +err:
>> +	rcu_read_lock();
>> +		tap = rcu_dereference(q->tap);
>> +	if (tap && tap->count_tx_dropped)
>> +		tap->count_tx_dropped(tap);
>> +	rcu_read_unlock();
>> +	return err;
>> +}
>> +
>>   static int tap_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *m,
>>   		       size_t total_len)
>>   {
>>   	struct tap_queue *q = container_of(sock, struct tap_queue, sock);
>>   	struct tun_msg_ctl *ctl = m->msg_control;
>> +	struct xdp_buff *xdp;
>> +	int i;
>>   
>> -	if (ctl && ctl->type != TUN_MSG_UBUF)
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> +	if (ctl && ((ctl->type & 0xF) == TUN_MSG_PTR)) {
>> +		for (i = 0; i < ctl->type >> 16; i++) {
>> +			xdp = &((struct xdp_buff *)ctl->ptr)[i];
>> +			tap_get_user_xdp(q, xdp);
>> +		}
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>>   
>>   	return tap_get_user(q, ctl ? ctl->ptr : NULL, &m->msg_iter,
>>   			    m->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1

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