netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:56:59 -0500
From: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>, 
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] net: Use SMP threads for backlog NAPI.

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 9:57 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> On 2023-08-18 09:43:08 [-0500], Yan Zhai wrote:
> > > Looking at the cloudflare ppl here in the thread, I doubt they use
> > > backlog but have proper NAPI so they might not need this.
> > >
> > Cloudflare does have backlog usage. On some veths we have to turn GRO
>
> Oh. Okay.
>
> > off to cope with multi-layer encapsulation, and there is also no XDP
> > attached on these interfaces, thus the backlog is used. There are also
> > other usage of backlog, tuntap, loopback and bpf-redirect ingress.
> > Frankly speaking, making a NAPI instance "threaded" itself is not a
> > concern. We have threaded NAPI running on some veth for quite a while,
> > and it performs pretty well. The concern, if any, would be the
> > maturity of new code. I am happy to help derisk with some lab tests
> > and dogfooding if generic agreement is reached to proceed with this
> > idea.
>
> If you have threaded NAPI for veth then you wouldn't be affected by this
> code. However, if you _are_ affected by this and you use veth it would
> be helpful to figure out if you have problems as of net-next and if this
> helps or makes it worse.
>
yes we are still impacted on non-NAPI veths and other scenarios. But
net-next sounds good, still plenty of time to evaluate if it has any
negative impact.

Yan

> As of now Jakub isn't eager to have it and my testing/ convincing is
> quite limited. If nobody else yells that something like that would be
> helpful I would simply go and convince PeterZ/tglx to apply 2/2 of this
> series.
>
> > Yan
>
> Sebastian