Re: [PATCH][V2] libbpf: add support for canceling cached_cons advance

On 11/24/20 9:12 AM, Magnus Karlsson wrote:

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Li RongQing [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Add a new function for returning descriptors the user received
after an xsk_ring_cons__peek call. After the application has
gotten a number of descriptors from a ring, it might not be able
to or want to process them all for various reasons. Therefore,
it would be useful to have an interface for returning or
cancelling a number of them so that they are returned to the ring.

This patch adds a new function called xsk_ring_cons__cancel that
performs this operation on nb descriptors counted from the end of
the batch of descriptors that was received through the peek call.

Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <redacted>
[ Magnus Karlsson: rewrote changelog ]
Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
---
diff with v1: fix the building, and rewrote changelog

  tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h | 6 ++++++
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h b/tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h
index 1069c46364ff..1719a327e5f9 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h

@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ static inline size_t xsk_ring_cons__peek(struct xsk_ring_cons *cons,
         return entries;
  }

+static inline void xsk_ring_cons__cancel(struct xsk_ring_cons *cons,
+                                        size_t nb)
+{
+       cons->cached_cons -= nb;
+}
+
  static inline void xsk_ring_cons__release(struct xsk_ring_cons *cons, size_t nb)
  {
         /* Make sure data has been read before indicating we are done
--

2.17.3

Thank you RongQing.

Acked-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>

@Magnus: shouldn't the xsk_ring_cons__cancel() nb type be '__u32 nb' instead?

Thanks,
Daniel