On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 01:15:00PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:36 AM Lorenzo Bianconi [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

Also, a good example of why this might be bothering for us is a fact that
in the meantime the dpaa driver got XDP support and this patch hasn't been
updated to include mb setting in that driver.

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 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(+)