Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 5 authors, 2025-02-10

Re: [PATCH RFC net-next v1 5/5] net: devmem: Implement TX path

From: Mina Almasry <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-27 22:52:51
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On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:10 AM Stanislav Fomichev
[off-list ref] wrote:
On 12/20, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
quoted
On 12/21, Mina Almasry wrote:
quoted
 void netdev_nl_sock_priv_init(struct list_head *priv)
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 815245d5c36b..eb6b41a32524 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1882,8 +1882,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(msg_zerocopy_ubuf_ops);

 int skb_zerocopy_iter_stream(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
                         struct msghdr *msg, int len,
-                        struct ubuf_info *uarg)
+                        struct ubuf_info *uarg,
+                        struct net_devmem_dmabuf_binding *binding)
 {
+   struct iov_iter *from = binding ? &binding->tx_iter : &msg->msg_iter;
For tx, I feel like this needs a copy of binding->tx_iter:

      struct iov_iter tx_iter = binding->tx_iter;
      struct iov_iter *from = binding ? &tx_iter : &msg->msg_iter;

Or something similar (rewind?). The tx_iter is advanced in
zerocopy_fill_skb_from_devmem but never reset back it seems (or I'm
missing something). In you case, if you call sendmsg twice with the same
offset, the second one will copy from 2*offset.
Can confirm that it's broken. We should probably have a mode in ncdevmem
to call sendmsg with the fixed sized chunks, something like this:
Thanks for catching. Yes, I've been able to repro and I believe I
fixed it locally and will include a fix with the next iteration.

I also agree using a binding->tx_iter here is not necessary, and it
makes the code a bit confusing as there is an iteration in msg and
another one in binding and we have to be careful which to
advance/revert etc. I've prototyped implementation without
binding->tx_iter with help from your series on github and seems to
work fine in my tests.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -912,7 +916,11 @@ static int do_client(struct memory_buffer *mem)
                                line_size, off);

                        iov.iov_base = NULL;
-                       iov.iov_len = line_size;
+                       iov.iov_len = line_size <= 4096 ?: 4096;

                        msg.msg_iov = &iov;
                        msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
@@ -933,6 +941,8 @@ static int do_client(struct memory_buffer *mem)
                        ret = sendmsg(socket_fd, &msg, MSG_ZEROCOPY);
                        if (ret < 0)
                                error(1, errno, "Failed sendmsg");
+                       if (ret == 0)
+                               break;

                        fprintf(stderr, "sendmsg_ret=%d\n", ret);
I can put it on my todo to extend the selftests..
FWIW I've been able to repro this and extended the tests to catch
this; those changes should come with the next iteration.

-- 
Thanks,
Mina
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