netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 08/10] xsk: Support UMEM chunk_size > PAGE

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Message-ID: <CAJ8uoz0GgzzfrgS0189=zwY-zzogZq+=v-NCY7O+RuWrwe1n6w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Apr 2023 13:14:20 +0200
From:   Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>
To:     Kal Cutter Conley <kal.conley@...tris.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>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 08/10] xsk: Support UMEM chunk_size > PAGE_SIZE

On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 at 12:29, Kal Cutter Conley <kal.conley@...tris.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Is not the max 64K as you test against XDP_UMEM_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE in
> > > > xdp_umem_reg()?
> > >
> > > The absolute max is 64K. In the case of HPAGE_SIZE < 64K, then it
> > > would be HPAGE_SIZE.
> >
> > Is there such a case when HPAGE_SIZE would be less than 64K? If not,
> > then just write 64K.
>
> Yes. While most platforms have HPAGE_SIZE defined to a compile-time
> constant >= 64K (very often 2M) there are platforms (at least ia64 and
> powerpc) where the hugepage size is configured at boot. Specifically,
> in the case of Itanium (ia64), the hugepage size may be configured at
> boot to any valid page size > PAGE_SIZE (e.g. 8K). See:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c#L159

So for all practical purposes it is max 64K. Let us just write that then.

> >
> > > > >  static int xdp_umem_pin_pages(struct xdp_umem *umem, unsigned long address)
> > > > >  {
> > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> > > >
> > > > Let us try to get rid of most of these #ifdefs sprinkled around the
> > > > code. How about hiding this inside xdp_umem_is_hugetlb() and get rid
> > > > of these #ifdefs below? Since I believe it is quite uncommon not to
> > > > have this config enabled, we could simplify things by always using the
> > > > page_size in the pool, for example. And dito for the one in struct
> > > > xdp_umem. What do you think?
> > >
> > > I used #ifdef for `page_size` in the pool for maximum performance when
> > > huge pages are disabled. We could also not worry about optimizing this
> > > uncommon case though since the performance impact is very small.
> > > However, I don't find the #ifdefs excessive either.
> >
> > Keep them to a minimum please since there are few of them in the
> > current code outside of some header files. And let us assume that
> > CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is the common case.
> >
>
> Would you be OK if I just remove the ones from xsk_buff_pool? I think
> the code in xdp_umem.c is quite readable and the #ifdefs are really
> only used in xdp_umem_pin_pages.

Please make an effort to remove the ones in xdp_umem.c too. The more
ifdefs you add, the harder it will be to read.