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Message-ID: <87tu0sdp95.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:13:42 +0100
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
andrii@...nel.org, martin.lau@...ux.dev, song@...nel.org,
yhs@...com, john.fastabend@...il.com, kpsingh@...nel.org,
haoluo@...gle.com, jolsa@...nel.org,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@...el.com>,
Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>,
Maryam Tahhan <mtahhan@...hat.com>, xdp-hints@...-project.net,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 15/17] net/mlx5e: Introduce
wrapper for xdp_buff
Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com> writes:
> On 13/01/2023 23:31, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 12/01/2023 23:55, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>>> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:07 AM Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/01/2023 2:32, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Preparation for implementing HW metadata kfuncs. No functional change.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@...el.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: Maryam Tahhan <mtahhan@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: xdp-hints@...-project.net
>>>>>>>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | 1 +
>>>>>>>> .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c | 3 +-
>>>>>>>> .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.h | 6 +-
>>>>>>>> .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c | 25 ++++----
>>>>>>>> .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 58 +++++++++----------
>>>>>>>> 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>>>> index 2d77fb8a8a01..af663978d1b4 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>>>> @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ struct mlx5e_txqsq {
>>>>>>>> union mlx5e_alloc_unit {
>>>>>>>> struct page *page;
>>>>>>>> struct xdp_buff *xsk;
>>>>>>>> + struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mxbuf;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In XSK files below you mix usage of both alloc_units[page_idx].mxbuf and
>>>>>>> alloc_units[page_idx].xsk, while both fields share the memory of a union.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As struct mlx5e_xdp_buff wraps struct xdp_buff, I think that you just
>>>>>>> need to change the existing xsk field type from struct xdp_buff *xsk
>>>>>>> into struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *xsk and align the usage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmmm, good point. I'm actually not sure how it works currently.
>>>>>> mlx5e_alloc_unit.mxbuf doesn't seem to be initialized anywhere? Toke,
>>>>>> am I missing something?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's initialised piecemeal in different places; but yeah, we're mixing
>>>>> things a bit...
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm thinking about something like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>> index af663978d1b4..2d77fb8a8a01 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>>>> @@ -469,7 +469,6 @@ struct mlx5e_txqsq {
>>>>>> union mlx5e_alloc_unit {
>>>>>> struct page *page;
>>>>>> struct xdp_buff *xsk;
>>>>>> - struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mxbuf;
>>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, for consistency with the non-XSK path we should rather go the other
>>>>> direction and lose the xsk member, moving everything to mxbuf? Let me
>>>>> give that a shot...
>>>>
>>>> Something like the below?
>>>>
>>>> -Toke
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>> index 6de02d8aeab8..cb9cdb6421c5 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
>>>> @@ -468,7 +468,6 @@ struct mlx5e_txqsq {
>>>>
>>>> union mlx5e_alloc_unit {
>>>> struct page *page;
>>>> - struct xdp_buff *xsk;
>>>> struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mxbuf;
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.h
>>>> index cb568c62aba0..95694a25ec31 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.h
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.h
>>>> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>>>> #define __MLX5_EN_XDP_H__
>>>>
>>>> #include <linux/indirect_call_wrapper.h>
>>>> +#include <net/xdp_sock_drv.h>
>>>>
>>>> #include "en.h"
>>>> #include "en/txrx.h"
>>>> @@ -112,6 +113,21 @@ static inline void mlx5e_xmit_xdp_doorbell(struct mlx5e_xdpsq *sq)
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> +static inline struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mlx5e_xsk_buff_alloc(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool)
>>>> +{
>>>> + return (struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *)xsk_buff_alloc(pool);
>>>
>>> What about the space needed for the rq / cqe fields? xsk_buff_alloc
>>> won't allocate it.
>>
>> It will! See patch 14 in the series that adds a 'cb' field to
>> xdp_buff_xsk, meaning there's actually space after the xdp_buff struct
>> being allocated by the xsk_buff_alloc API. The XSK_CHECK_PRIV_TYPE macro
>> call is there to ensure the cb field is big enough for the struct we're
>> casting to in the driver.
>>
>
> Oh okay, got it.
>
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static inline void mlx5e_xsk_buff_free(struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mxbuf)
>>>> +{
>>>> + xsk_buff_free(&mxbuf->xdp);
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static inline dma_addr_t mlx5e_xsk_buff_xdp_get_frame_dma(struct mlx5e_xdp_buff *mxbuf)
>>>> +{
>>>> + return xsk_buff_xdp_get_frame_dma(&mxbuf->xdp);
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> /* Enable inline WQEs to shift some load from a congested HCA (HW) to
>>>> * a less congested cpu (SW).
>>>> */
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
>>>> index 8bf3029abd3c..1f166dbb7f22 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
>>>> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
>>>>
>>>> #include "rx.h"
>>>> #include "en/xdp.h"
>>>> -#include <net/xdp_sock_drv.h>
>>>> #include <linux/filter.h>
>>>>
>>>> /* RX data path */
>>>> @@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ int mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, u16 ix)
>>>> if (unlikely(!xsk_buff_can_alloc(rq->xsk_pool, rq->mpwqe.pages_per_wqe)))
>>>> goto err;
>>>>
>>>> - BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(wi->alloc_units[0]) != sizeof(wi->alloc_units[0].xsk));
>>>> + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(wi->alloc_units[0]) != sizeof(wi->alloc_units[0].mxbuf));
>>>> XSK_CHECK_PRIV_TYPE(struct mlx5e_xdp_buff);
>>>> batch = xsk_buff_alloc_batch(rq->xsk_pool, (struct xdp_buff **)wi->alloc_units,
>>>> rq->mpwqe.pages_per_wqe);
>>>
>>> This batching API gets broken as well...
>>> xsk_buff_alloc_batch fills an array of struct xdp_buff pointers, it
>>> cannot correctly act on the array of struct mlx5e_xdp_buff, as it
>>> contains additional fields.
>>
>> See above for why this does, in fact, work. I agree it's not totally
>> obvious, and in any case there's going to be a point where the cast
>> happens where type safety will break, which is what I was alluding to in
>> my reply to Stanislav.
>>
>> I guess we could try to rework the API in xdp_sock_drv.h to make this
>> more obvious instead of using the casting driver-specific wrappers I
>> suggested here. Or we could go with Stanislav's suggestion of keeping
>> allocation etc using xdp_buff and only casting to mlx5e_xdp_buff in the
>> function where it's used; then we can keep the casting localised to that
>> function, and put a comment there explaining why it works?
>>
>
> Stanislav's proposal LGTM.
> Let's keep the casting localised, and make sure there's a comment there.
Alright, cool!
-Toke
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