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From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	shayagr@amazon.com, "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@amazon.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	dsahern@kernel.org, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
	lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 02/14] xdp: initialize xdp_buff mb bit to 0 in all XDP drivers
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 22:37:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201207213711.GA27205@ranger.igk.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UcjtERgpV9tke-HcmP7rWOns_-jmthnGiNPES+aqhScFg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 01:15:00PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:36 AM Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> 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.

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.

> 
> > ---
> >  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(+)
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07 16:32 [PATCH v5 bpf-next 00/14] mvneta: introduce XDP multi-buffer support Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 01/14] xdp: introduce mb in xdp_buff/xdp_frame Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 21:16   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-12-07 23:03     ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-12-08  3:16       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-12-08  6:49         ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-12-08  9:47           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 02/14] xdp: initialize xdp_buff mb bit to 0 in all XDP drivers Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 21:15   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-12-07 21:37     ` Maciej Fijalkowski [this message]
2020-12-07 23:20       ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-12-08 10:31         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-08 13:29           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 03/14] xdp: add xdp_shared_info data structure Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-08  0:22   ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-12-08 11:01     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-19 14:53       ` Shay Agroskin
2020-12-19 15:30         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2020-12-21  9:01           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-12-21 13:00             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2020-12-20 17:52         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-21 20:55           ` Shay Agroskin
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 04/14] net: mvneta: update mb bit before passing the xdp buffer to eBPF layer Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 05/14] xdp: add multi-buff support to xdp_return_{buff/frame} Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 06/14] net: mvneta: add multi buffer support to XDP_TX Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-19 15:56   ` Shay Agroskin
2020-12-20 18:06     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 07/14] bpf: move user_size out of bpf_test_init Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 08/14] bpf: introduce multibuff support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 09/14] bpf: test_run: add xdp_shared_info pointer in bpf_test_finish signature Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 10/14] net: mvneta: enable jumbo frames for XDP Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 11/14] bpf: cpumap: introduce xdp multi-buff support Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-19 17:46   ` Shay Agroskin
2020-12-20 17:56     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 12/14] bpf: add multi-buff support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 13/14] bpf: add new frame_length field to the XDP ctx Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-12-08 22:17   ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-12-09 10:35     ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-12-09 11:10       ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-12-09 12:07         ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-12-15 13:28           ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-12-15 18:06             ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-12-16 14:08               ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-01-15 16:36                 ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-01-18 16:48                   ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2021-01-20 13:20                     ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-02-01 16:00                       ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-12-07 16:32 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 14/14] bpf: update xdp_adjust_tail selftest to include multi-buffer Lorenzo Bianconi

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