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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:22:07 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...dia.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, saeedm@...dia.com,
        tariqt@...dia.com, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        sagi@...mberg.me, hch@....de, kbusch@...nel.org, axboe@...com,
        chaitanyak@...dia.com, smalin@...dia.com, ogerlitz@...dia.com,
        yorayz@...dia.com, borisp@...dia.com, aurelien.aptel@...il.com,
        malin1024@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/23] net: Introduce direct data placement tcp offload

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 01:18:16PM +0300, Aurelien Aptel wrote:
> From: Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>
> 
> This commit introduces direct data placement (DDP) offload for TCP.
> 
> The motivation is saving compute resources/cycles that are spent
> to copy data from SKBs to the block layer buffers and CRC
> calculation/verification for received PDUs (Protocol Data Units).
> 
> The DDP capability is accompanied by new net_device operations that
> configure hardware contexts.
> 
> There is a context per socket, and a context per DDP operation.
> Additionally, a resynchronization routine is used to assist
> hardware handle TCP OOO, and continue the offload. Furthermore,
> we let the offloading driver advertise what is the max hw
> sectors/segments.
> 
> The interface includes five net-device ddp operations:
> 
>  1. sk_add - add offload for the queue represented by socket+config pair
>  2. sk_del - remove the offload for the socket/queue
>  3. ddp_setup - request copy offload for buffers associated with an IO
>  4. ddp_teardown - release offload resources for that IO
>  5. limits - query NIC driver for quirks and limitations (e.g.
>              max number of scatter gather entries per IO)
> 
> Using this interface, the NIC hardware will scatter TCP payload
> directly to the BIO pages according to the command_id.
> 
> To maintain the correctness of the network stack, the driver is
> expected to construct SKBs that point to the BIO pages.
> 
> The SKB passed to the network stack from the driver represents
> data as it is on the wire, while it is pointing directly to data
> in destination buffers.
> 
> As a result, data from page frags should not be copied out to
> the linear part. To avoid needless copies, such as when using
> skb_condense, we mark the skb->ddp bit.
> In addition, the skb->crc will be used by the upper layers to
> determine if CRC re-calculation is required. The two separated skb
> indications are needed to avoid false positives GRO flushing events.
> 
> Follow-up patches will use this interface for DDP in NVMe-TCP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Ben-Ishay <benishay@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yoray Zack <yorayz@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...dia.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/netdev_features.h    |   3 +-
>  include/linux/netdevice.h          |   5 +
>  include/linux/skbuff.h             |  11 ++
>  include/net/inet_connection_sock.h |   4 +
>  include/net/ulp_ddp.h              | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/Kconfig                        |  10 ++
>  net/core/skbuff.c                  |   3 +-
>  net/ethtool/common.c               |   1 +
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c               |   8 ++
>  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                |   3 +
>  net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c             |   3 +
>  11 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/net/ulp_ddp.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdev_features.h b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
> index 7c2d77d75a88..bf7391aa04c7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdev_features.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdev_features.h
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ typedef u64 netdev_features_t;
>  enum {
>  	NETIF_F_SG_BIT,			/* Scatter/gather IO. */
>  	NETIF_F_IP_CSUM_BIT,		/* Can checksum TCP/UDP over IPv4. */
> -	__UNUSED_NETIF_F_1,
> +	NETIF_F_HW_ULP_DDP_BIT,         /* ULP direct data placement offload */
>  	NETIF_F_HW_CSUM_BIT,		/* Can checksum all the packets. */
>  	NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM_BIT,		/* Can checksum TCP/UDP over IPV6 */
>  	NETIF_F_HIGHDMA_BIT,		/* Can DMA to high memory. */
> @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ enum {
>  #define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_TAG_RM	__NETIF_F(HW_HSR_TAG_RM)
>  #define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_FWD	__NETIF_F(HW_HSR_FWD)
>  #define NETIF_F_HW_HSR_DUP	__NETIF_F(HW_HSR_DUP)
> +#define NETIF_F_HW_ULP_DDP	__NETIF_F(HW_ULP_DDP)
>  
>  /* Finds the next feature with the highest number of the range of start-1 till 0.
>   */
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index a36edb0ec199..ff6f4978723a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -1043,6 +1043,7 @@ struct dev_ifalias {

<...>

> @@ -982,6 +984,15 @@ struct sk_buff {
>  #endif
>  	__u8			slow_gro:1;
>  	__u8			csum_not_inet:1;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ULP_DDP
> +	__u8                    ulp_ddp:1;
> +	__u8			ulp_crc:1;
> +#define IS_ULP_DDP(skb) ((skb)->ulp_ddp)
> +#define IS_ULP_CRC(skb) ((skb)->ulp_crc)
> +#else
> +#define IS_ULP_DDP(skb) (0)
> +#define IS_ULP_CRC(skb) (0)

All users of this define are protected by ifdef CONFIG_ULP_DDP.
It is easier to wrap user of IS_ULP_DDP() too and remove #else
lag from here.

> +#endif
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NET_SCHED
>  	__u16			tc_index;	/* traffic control index */
> diff --git a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
> index c2b15f7e5516..2ba73167b3bb 100644
> --- a/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
> +++ b/include/net/inet_connection_sock.h
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ struct inet_connection_sock_af_ops {
>   * @icsk_ulp_ops	   Pluggable ULP control hook
>   * @icsk_ulp_data	   ULP private data
>   * @icsk_clean_acked	   Clean acked data hook
> + * @icsk_ulp_ddp_ops	   Pluggable ULP direct data placement control hook
> + * @icsk_ulp_ddp_data	   ULP direct data placement private data
>   * @icsk_ca_state:	   Congestion control state
>   * @icsk_retransmits:	   Number of unrecovered [RTO] timeouts
>   * @icsk_pending:	   Scheduled timer event
> @@ -98,6 +100,8 @@ struct inet_connection_sock {
>  	const struct tcp_ulp_ops  *icsk_ulp_ops;
>  	void __rcu		  *icsk_ulp_data;
>  	void (*icsk_clean_acked)(struct sock *sk, u32 acked_seq);
> +	const struct ulp_ddp_ulp_ops  *icsk_ulp_ddp_ops;
> +	void __rcu		  *icsk_ulp_ddp_data;
>  	unsigned int		  (*icsk_sync_mss)(struct sock *sk, u32 pmtu);
>  	__u8			  icsk_ca_state:5,
>  				  icsk_ca_initialized:1,
> diff --git a/include/net/ulp_ddp.h b/include/net/ulp_ddp.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..57cc4ab22e18
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/net/ulp_ddp.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> + *
> + * ulp_ddp.h
> + *	Author:	Boris Pismenny <borisp@...dia.com>
> + *	Copyright (C) 2022 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.

The official format is:
Copyright (C) 2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.  All rights reserved.
                 ^^^^                  		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       


<...>

> +config ULP_DDP
> +	bool "ULP direct data placement offload"
> +	default n

No need to set "n" explicitly, it is already default.

Thanks

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