Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: lan966x: Add xdp support

[Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>]

From: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 21:46:09 +0100

> Add support for xdp in lan966x driver. Currently only XDP_PASS and
> XDP_DROP are supported.
> 
> The first 2 patches are just moving things around just to simplify
> the code for when the xdp is added.
> Patch 3 actually adds the xdp. Currently the only supported actions
> are XDP_PASS and XDP_DROP. In the future this will be extended with
> XDP_TX and XDP_REDIRECT.
> Patch 4 changes to use page pool API, because the handling of the
> pages is similar with what already lan966x driver is doing. In this
> way is possible to remove some of the code.
> 
> All these changes give a small improvement on the RX side:
> Before:
> iperf3 -c 10.96.10.1 -R
> [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   514 MBytes   430 Mbits/sec    0         sender
> [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   509 MBytes   427 Mbits/sec              receiver
> 
> After:
> iperf3 -c 10.96.10.1 -R
> [  5]   0.00-10.02  sec   540 MBytes   452 Mbits/sec    0         sender
> [  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   537 MBytes   450 Mbits/sec              receiver

A bit confusing name 'max_mtu' which in fact represents the max
frame len + skb overhead (4th patch), but it's more of a personal
taste probably.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>

Nice stuff! I hear time to time that XDP is for 10G+ NICs only, but
I'm not a fan of such, and this series proves once again XDP fits
any hardware ^.^

> 
> ---
> v2->v3:
> - inline lan966x_xdp_port_present
> - update max_len of page_pool_params not to be the page size anymore but
>   actually be rx->max_mtu.
> 
> v1->v2:
> - rebase on net-next, once the fixes for FDMA and MTU were accepted
> - drop patch 2, which changes the MTU as is not needed anymore
> - allow to run xdp programs on frames bigger than 4KB
> 
> Horatiu Vultur (4):
>   net: lan966x: Add define IFH_LEN_BYTES
>   net: lan966x: Split function lan966x_fdma_rx_get_frame
>   net: lan966x: Add basic XDP support
>   net: lan96x: Use page_pool API
> 
>  .../net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/Kconfig    |   1 +
>  .../net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/Makefile   |   3 +-
>  .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_fdma.c | 181 +++++++++++-------
>  .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ifh.h  |   1 +
>  .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c |   7 +-
>  .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.h |  33 ++++
>  .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_xdp.c  |  76 ++++++++
>  7 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_xdp.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.38.0

Thanks,
Olek