Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 02/14] xdp: initialize xdp_buff mb bit to 0 in all XDP drivers
From: Alexander Duyck <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-07 21:16:08
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:36 AM Lorenzo Bianconi [off-list ref] wrote:
Initialize multi-buffer bit (mb) to 0 in all XDP-capable drivers. This is a preliminary patch to enable xdp multi-buffer support. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
I'm really not a fan of this design. Having to update every driver in order to initialize a field that was fragmented is a pain. At a minimum it seems like it might be time to consider introducing some sort of initializer function for this so that you can update things in one central place the next time you have to add a new field instead of having to update every individual driver that supports XDP. Otherwise this isn't going to scale going forward.
--- drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/rx.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/netsec.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c | 1 + drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_bpf.c | 1 + drivers/net/tun.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/veth.c | 1 + drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 1 + 24 files changed, 26 insertions(+)