netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND bpf-next 14/15] net, xdp: allow metadata

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 17:35:27 +0200
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>,
 Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@...el.com>
Cc: brouer@...hat.com, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>,
 bpf@...r.kernel.org, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
 Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
 KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
 Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
 Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.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, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND bpf-next 14/15] net, xdp: allow metadata > 32



On 16/05/2023 14.37, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Larysa Zaremba<larysa.zaremba@...el.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 19:08:39 +0200
> 
>> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:17:02PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/05/2023 17.26, Larysa Zaremba wrote:
>>>> From: Aleksander Lobakin<aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
>>>>
>>>> When using XDP hints, metadata sometimes has to be much bigger
>>>> than 32 bytes. Relax the restriction, allow metadata larger than 32 bytes
>>>> and make __skb_metadata_differs() work with bigger lengths.
>>>>
>>>> Now size of metadata is only limited by the fact it is stored as u8
>>>> in skb_shared_info, so maximum possible value is 255.
 >>>
>>> I'm confused, IIRC the metadata area isn't stored "in skb_shared_info".
>>> The maximum possible size is limited by the XDP headroom, which is also
>>> shared/limited with/by xdp_frame.  I must be reading the sentence wrong,
>>> somehow.
 >
> skb_shared_info::meta_size  is u8. Since metadata gets carried from
> xdp_buff to skb, this check is needed (it's compile-time constant anyway).
> Check for headroom is done separately already (two sentences below).
> 

Damn, argh, for SKBs the "meta_len" is stored in skb_shared_info, which
is located on another cacheline.
That is a sure way to KILL performance! :-(

But only use for SKBs that gets created from xdp with metadata, right?



>> It's not 'metadata is stored as u8', it's 'metadata size is stored as u8' :)
>> Maybe I should rephrase it better in v2.

Yes, a rephrase will be good.

--Jesper



static inline u8 skb_metadata_len(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
	return skb_shinfo(skb)->meta_len;
}