netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v11 2/3] xen networking: add basic XDP support for xen-netfront

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Message-ID: <20200626090402.0f2228de@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:04:02 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, brouer@...hat.com, jgross@...e.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, paul@....org, ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v11 2/3] xen networking: add basic XDP support
 for xen-netfront

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:34:33 +0300 Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> The patch adds a basic XDP processing to xen-netfront driver.
> 
> We ran an XDP program for an RX response received from netback
> driver. Also we request xen-netback to adjust data offset for
> bpf_xdp_adjust_head() header space for custom headers.
> 
> synchronization between frontend and backend parts is done
> by using xenbus state switching:
> Reconfiguring -> Reconfigured- > Connected
> 
> UDP packets drop rate using xdp program is around 310 kpps
> using ./pktgen_sample04_many_flows.sh and 160 kpps without the patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>

W=1 C=1 produces this warning:

drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: In function xennet_xdp_xmit_one:
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c:581:31: warning: variable tx set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  581 |  struct xen_netif_tx_request *tx;
      |                               ^~