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[PATCH RFC v1 12/15] xdp: cpumap redirect use frame_sz and increase skb_tailroom

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-17 17:30:32
Also in: bpf
Subsystem: bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), the rest, xdp (express data path) · Maintainers: Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Linus Torvalds, David S. Miller, Jakub Kicinski, Jesper Dangaard Brouer, John Fastabend

Knowing the memory size backing the packet/xdp_frame data area, and
knowing it already have reserved room for skb_shared_info, simplifies
using build_skb significantly.

With this change we no-longer lie about the SKB truesize, but more
importantly a significant larger skb_tailroom is now provided, e.g. when
drivers uses a full PAGE_SIZE. This extra tailroom (in linear area) can be
used by the network stack when coalescing SKBs (e.g. in skb_try_coalesce,
see TCP cases where tcp_queue_rcv() can 'eat' skb).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <redacted>
---
 kernel/bpf/cpumap.c |   21 +++------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c b/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
index 70f71b154fa5..9c777ac4d4bd 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
@@ -162,25 +162,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *cpu_map_build_skb(struct bpf_cpu_map_entry *rcpu,
 	/* Part of headroom was reserved to xdpf */
 	hard_start_headroom = sizeof(struct xdp_frame) +  xdpf->headroom;
 
-	/* build_skb need to place skb_shared_info after SKB end, and
-	 * also want to know the memory "truesize".  Thus, need to
-	 * know the memory frame size backing xdp_buff.
-	 *
-	 * XDP was designed to have PAGE_SIZE frames, but this
-	 * assumption is not longer true with ixgbe and i40e.  It
-	 * would be preferred to set frame_size to 2048 or 4096
-	 * depending on the driver.
-	 *   frame_size = 2048;
-	 *   frame_len  = frame_size - sizeof(*xdp_frame);
-	 *
-	 * Instead, with info avail, skb_shared_info in placed after
-	 * packet len.  This, unfortunately fakes the truesize.
-	 * Another disadvantage of this approach, the skb_shared_info
-	 * is not at a fixed memory location, with mixed length
-	 * packets, which is bad for cache-line hotness.
+	/* Memory size backing xdp_frame data already have reserved
+	 * room for build_skb to place skb_shared_info in tailroom.
 	 */
-	frame_size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(xdpf->len + hard_start_headroom) +
-		SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
+	frame_size = xdpf->frame_sz;
 
 	pkt_data_start = xdpf->data - hard_start_headroom;
 	skb = build_skb_around(skb, pkt_data_start, frame_size);

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