On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 18:07:05 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:58:45PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:

quoted

Introduce multi-buffer bit (mb) in xdp_frame/xdp_buffer to specify
if shared_info area has been properly initialized for non-linear
xdp buffers

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
---
 include/net/xdp.h | 8 ++++++--
 net/core/xdp.c    | 1 +
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/xdp.h b/include/net/xdp.h
index 3814fb631d52..42f439f9fcda 100644
--- a/include/net/xdp.h
+++ b/include/net/xdp.h

@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ struct xdp_buff {
 	void *data_hard_start;
 	struct xdp_rxq_info *rxq;
 	struct xdp_txq_info *txq;
-	u32 frame_sz; /* frame size to deduce data_hard_end/reserved tailroom*/
+	u32 frame_sz:31; /* frame size to deduce data_hard_end/reserved tailroom*/
+	u32 mb:1; /* xdp non-linear buffer */
 };
 
 /* Reserve memory area at end-of data area.

@@ -96,7 +97,8 @@ struct xdp_frame {
 	u16 len;
 	u16 headroom;
 	u32 metasize:8;
-	u32 frame_sz:24;
+	u32 frame_sz:23;
+	u32 mb:1; /* xdp non-linear frame */  

Hmm. Last time I checked compilers were generating ugly code with bitfields.
Not performant and not efficient.
frame_sz is used in the fast path.
I suspect the first hunk alone will cause performance degradation.
Could you use normal u8 or u32 flag field?

For struct xdp_buff sure we can do this.  For struct xdp_frame, I'm not
sure, as it is a state compressed version of xdp_buff + extra
information.  The xdp_frame have been called skb-light, and I know
people (e.g Ahern) wants to add more info to this, vlan, RX-hash, csum,
and we must keep this to 1-cache-line, for performance reasons.

You do make a good point, that these bit-fields might hurt performance
more.  I guess, we need to test this.  As I constantly worry that we
will slowly kill XDP performance with a 1000 paper-cuts.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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