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Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] virtio-net: re enable XDP_REDIRECT for mergeable buffer

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-01 08:41:34
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On Thu,  1 Mar 2018 11:19:04 +0800 Jason Wang [off-list ref] wrote:
XDP_REDIRECT support for mergeable buffer was removed since commit
7324f5399b06 ("virtio_net: disable XDP_REDIRECT in receive_mergeable()
case"). This is because we don't reserve enough tailroom for struct
skb_shared_info which breaks XDP assumption. Other complaints are, the
complex linearize logic and EWMA estimation may increase the
possibility of linearizing.
This patch also have the intermixing issues, I mentioned for patch 2/2.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:02:06 +0100
Jesper Dangaard Brouer [off-list ref] wrote:
1. XDP generic is not feature complete, e.g. cpumap will drop these
   packets. It might not be possible to implement some features, think
   of (AF_XDP) zero-copy.

2. This can easily cause out-of-order packets.

3. It makes it harder to troubleshoot, when diagnosing issues
   around #1, we have a hard time determining what path an XDP packet
   took (the xdp tracepoints doesn't know).

It is slightly better, as it is consistent in calling XDP-generic in
the XDP_REDIRECT action, which an action under heavy development, here
we want the freedom to develop in different code tempi.  And some
features might never be available in XDP-generic. Thus, when a feature
is missing/broken it will be consistent for the user.

The remaining question is how will a user know that XDP "mode" she is
using?  The user clearly loaded an XDP-native program, and expect the
associated performance, but XDP_REDIRECT will be using the slow
XDP-generic code path...


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Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9bb9e56..81190ba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -689,31 +709,30 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev,
 	struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog;
 	unsigned int truesize;
 	unsigned int headroom = mergeable_ctx_to_headroom(ctx);
-	bool sent;
+	bool sent, skb_xdp = false;
+	int err;
 
 	head_skb = NULL;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	xdp_prog = rcu_dereference(rq->xdp_prog);
 	if (xdp_prog) {
-		struct page *xdp_page;
 		struct xdp_buff xdp;
 		void *data;
 		u32 act;
 
-		/* This happens when rx buffer size is underestimated */
+		/* This happens when rx buffer size is underestimated
+		 * or headroom is not enough because of the buffer
+		 * was refilled before XDP is set. In both cases,
+		 * for simplicity, we will offload them to generic
+		 * XDP routine. This should only happen for the first
+		 * several packets, so we don't care much about its
+		 * performance.
+		 */
 		if (unlikely(num_buf > 1 ||
 			     headroom < virtnet_get_headroom(vi))) {
I think you also need to check the tailroom here? (AFAIK this is hidden
in the len_to_ctx as the "truesize").
-			/* linearize data for XDP */
-			xdp_page = xdp_linearize_page(rq, &num_buf,
-						      page, offset,
-						      VIRTIO_XDP_HEADROOM,
-						      &len);
-			if (!xdp_page)
-				goto err_xdp;
-			offset = VIRTIO_XDP_HEADROOM;
-		} else {
-			xdp_page = page;
+			skb_xdp = true;
+			goto skb_xdp;
 		}
 
 		/* Transient failure which in theory could occur if

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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