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Message-ID: <Y9Dn/O+UInsY6rZI@corigine.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:27:40 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To:     Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/8] drivers: net: turn on XDP features

+ Niklas, oss-drivers@...igine

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 01:33:22AM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> From: Marek Majtyka <alardam@...il.com>
> 
> A summary of the flags being set for various drivers is given below.
> Note that XDP_F_REDIRECT_TARGET and XDP_F_FRAG_TARGET are features
> that can be turned off and on at runtime. This means that these flags
> may be set and unset under RTNL lock protection by the driver. Hence,
> READ_ONCE must be used by code loading the flag value.
> 
> Also, these flags are not used for synchronization against the availability
> of XDP resources on a device. It is merely a hint, and hence the read
> may race with the actual teardown of XDP resources on the device. This
> may change in the future, e.g. operations taking a reference on the XDP
> resources of the driver, and in turn inhibiting turning off this flag.
> However, for now, it can only be used as a hint to check whether device
> supports becoming a redirection target.
> 
> Turn 'hw-offload' feature flag on for:
>  - netronome (nfp)
>  - netdevsim.
> 
> Turn 'native' and 'zerocopy' features flags on for:
>  - intel (i40e, ice, ixgbe, igc)
>  - mellanox (mlx5).
>  - stmmac

nit: possibly nfp goes in the above list too.

> Turn 'native' features flags on for:
>  - amazon (ena)
>  - broadcom (bnxt)
>  - freescale (dpaa, dpaa2, enetc)
>  - funeth
>  - intel (igb)
>  - marvell (mvneta, mvpp2, octeontx2)
>  - mellanox (mlx4)
>  - qlogic (qede)
>  - sfc
>  - socionext (netsec)
>  - ti (cpsw)
>  - tap
>  - veth
>  - xen
>  - virtio_net.
> 
> Turn 'basic' (tx, pass, aborted and drop) features flags on for:
>  - netronome (nfp)
>  - cavium (thunder)
>  - hyperv.
> 
> Turn 'redirect_target' feature flag on for:
>  - amanzon (ena)
>  - broadcom (bnxt)
>  - freescale (dpaa, dpaa2)
>  - intel (i40e, ice, igb, ixgbe)
>  - ti (cpsw)
>  - marvell (mvneta, mvpp2)
>  - sfc
>  - socionext (netsec)
>  - qlogic (qede)
>  - mellanox (mlx5)
>  - tap
>  - veth
>  - virtio_net
>  - xen
> 
> Co-developed-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@...il.com>
> Co-developed-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Majtyka <alardam@...il.com>

The code below matches my understanding of what was discussed wrt
earlier versions of this patchset.

For the nfp driver portion:

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
> index 18fc9971f1c8..e4825d885560 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c
> @@ -2529,10 +2529,15 @@ static void nfp_net_netdev_init(struct nfp_net *nn)
>  	netdev->features &= ~NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_RX;
>  	nn->dp.ctrl &= ~NFP_NET_CFG_CTRL_RXQINQ;
>  
> +	netdev->xdp_features = NETDEV_XDP_ACT_BASIC;
> +	if (nn->app && nn->app->type->id == NFP_APP_BPF_NIC)
> +		netdev->xdp_features |= NETDEV_XDP_ACT_HW_OFFLOAD;
> +
>  	/* Finalise the netdev setup */
>  	switch (nn->dp.ops->version) {
>  	case NFP_NFD_VER_NFD3:
>  		netdev->netdev_ops = &nfp_nfd3_netdev_ops;
> +		netdev->xdp_features |= NETDEV_XDP_ACT_XSK_ZEROCOPY;
>  		break;
>  	case NFP_NFD_VER_NFDK:
>  		netdev->netdev_ops = &nfp_nfdk_netdev_ops;