netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v1 01/15] xdp: add frame size to xdp

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Message-ID: <20200317134243.3c29a324@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:42:43 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     sameehj@...zon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        zorik@...zon.com, akiyano@...zon.com, gtzalik@...zon.com,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...e.dk>,
        Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>,
        Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 01/15] xdp: add frame size to xdp_buff

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:29:12 +0100 Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> XDP have evolved to support several frame sizes, but xdp_buff was not
> updated with this information. The frame size (frame_sz) member of
> xdp_buff is introduced to know the real size of the memory the frame is
> delivered in.
> 
> When introducing this also make it clear that some tailroom is
> reserved/required when creating SKBs using build_skb().
> 
> It would also have been an option to introduce a pointer to
> data_hard_end (with reserved offset). The advantage with frame_sz is
> that (like rxq) drivers only need to setup/assign this value once per
> NAPI cycle. Due to XDP-generic (and some drivers) it's not possible to
> store frame_sz inside xdp_rxq_info, because it's varies per packet as it
> can be based/depend on packet length.

Do you reckon it would be too ugly to make xdp-generic suffer and have
it set the length in rxq per packet? We shouldn't handle multiple
packets from the same rxq in parallel, no?