netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] xsk: support use vaddr as ring

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:22:06 +0800
From:   Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] xsk: support use vaddr as ring

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:50:54 +0100, Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
> From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:48:21 +0800
>
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:45:12 +0100, Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:
> >> From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:51:12 +0800
> >>
> >>> When we try to start AF_XDP on some machines with long running time, due
> >>> to the machine's memory fragmentation problem, there is no sufficient
> >>> contiguous physical memory that will cause the start failure.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> @@ -1319,13 +1317,10 @@ static int xsk_mmap(struct file *file, struct socket *sock,
> >>>
> >>>  	/* Matches the smp_wmb() in xsk_init_queue */
> >>>  	smp_rmb();
> >>> -	qpg = virt_to_head_page(q->ring);
> >>> -	if (size > page_size(qpg))
> >>> +	if (size > PAGE_ALIGN(q->ring_size))
> >>
> >> You can set q->ring_size as PAGE_ALIGN(size) already at the allocation
> >> to simplify this. I don't see any other places where you use it.
> >
> > That's it, but I think it is not particularly appropriate to change the
> > the semantics of ring_size just for simplify this code. This may make
> > people feel strange.
>
> You can name it 'vmalloc_size' then. By "ring_size" I first of all
> assume the number of elements, not the allocation size.


Maybe "ring_vmalloc_size"

>
> Also, wait, shouldn't you do this PAGE_ALIGN() *before* you actually
> vmalloc() it? Can't here be out-of-bounds with the current approach?


vmalloc_user() will do PAGE_ALIGN().

Thanks.


>
> >
> > I agree with you other opinions.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Thanks,
> Olek