From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>, <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC bpf-next v2 09/24] xdp: Add VLAN tag hint
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 11:08:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231004110850.5501cd52@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8e9d830b-556b-b8e6-45df-0bf7971b4237@intel.com>
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 15:09:39 +0200 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > Sorry for a random chime-in but was there any discussion about
> > the validity of VLAN stripping as an offload?
> >
> > I always thought this is a legacy "Windows" thing which allowed
> > Windows drivers to operate on VLAN-tagged networks even before
> > the OS itself understood VLANs... Do people actually care about
> > having it enabled?
>
> On MIPS routers, I actually have some perf gains from having it enabled.
> So they do, I'd say. Mediatek even has DSA tag stripping. Both save you
> some skb->data push-pulls, csum corrections when CHECKSUM_COMPLETE, skb
> unsharing in some cases, reduce L3/L4 headers cacheline spanning etc.
No unsharing - you can still strip it in the driver.
Do you really think that for XDP kfunc call will be cheaper?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-04 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-27 7:51 [RFC bpf-next v2 00/24] XDP metadata via kfuncs for ice + mlx5 Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 01/24] ice: make RX hash reading code more reusable Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 02/24] ice: make RX HW timestamp " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 03/24] ice: make RX checksum checking " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 04/24] ice: Make ptype internal to descriptor info processing Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 05/24] ice: Introduce ice_xdp_buff Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 06/24] ice: Support HW timestamp hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 07/24] ice: Support RX hash XDP hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 08/24] ice: Support XDP hints in AF_XDP ZC mode Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 09/24] xdp: Add VLAN tag hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 12:14 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-03 12:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-03 13:09 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-10-04 18:08 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-10-05 16:58 ` [xdp-hints] " Alexander Lobakin
2023-10-05 17:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-05 17:20 ` David Ahern
2023-10-05 18:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 10/24] ice: Implement " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 11/24] ice: use VLAN proto from ring packet context in skb path Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 12/24] xdp: Add checksum hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 13:27 ` kernel test robot
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 13/24] ice: Implement " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 14/24] ice: put XDP meta sources assignment under a static key condition Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 15/24] selftests/bpf: Allow VLAN packets in xdp_hw_metadata Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 16/24] net, xdp: allow metadata > 32 Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 17/24] selftests/bpf: Add flags and new hints to xdp_hw_metadata Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 18/24] veth: Implement VLAN tag and checksum XDP hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 19/24] net: make vlan_get_tag() return -ENODATA instead of -EINVAL Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 20/24] selftests/bpf: Use AF_INET for TX in xdp_metadata Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 21/24] selftests/bpf: Check VLAN tag and proto " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 22/24] selftests/bpf: check checksum state " Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 23/24] mlx5: implement VLAN tag XDP hint Larysa Zaremba
2023-09-27 7:51 ` [RFC bpf-next v2 24/24] mlx5: implement RX checksum " Larysa Zaremba
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