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

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:58:22 +0100
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     sameehj@...zon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        zorik@...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>, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 01/15] xdp: add frame size to xdp_buff

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:42:43 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:

> 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?

It's not only xdp-generic, but also xdp-native drivers like ixgbe and
i40e, that have modes (>4K page) where they have per packet frame size.
As this kind of mode, have in-practice been "allowed" (with out me
realizing it) I expect that other drivers will likely also use this.

Regarding the parallel argument, then Intel at LPC had done experiments
with "RX-bulking" that required multiple xdp_buff's.  It's not exactly
parallel, but I see progress in that direction.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer