Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/4] xdp: recycle Page Pool backed skbs built from XDP frames

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

From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:42:56 +0100

> Yeah, I still remember that "Who needs cpumap nowadays" (c), but anyway.
> 
> __xdp_build_skb_from_frame() missed the moment when the networking stack
> became able to recycle skb pages backed by a page_pool. This was making
> e.g. cpumap redirect even less effective than simple %XDP_PASS. veth was
> also affected in some scenarios.
> A lot of drivers use skb_mark_for_recycle() already, it's been almost
> two years and seems like there are no issues in using it in the generic
> code too. {__,}xdp_release_frame() can be then removed as it losts its
> last user.
> Page Pool becomes then zero-alloc (or almost) in the abovementioned
> cases, too. Other memory type models (who needs them at this point)
> have no changes.

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> 
> Some numbers on 1 Xeon Platinum core bombed with 27 Mpps of 64-byte
> IPv6 UDP, iavf w/XDP[0] (CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is enabled):
> 
> Plain %XDP_PASS on baseline, Page Pool driver:
> 
> src cpu Rx     drops  dst cpu Rx
>   2.1 Mpps       N/A    2.1 Mpps
> 
> cpumap redirect (cross-core, w/o leaving its NUMA node) on baseline:
> 
>   6.8 Mpps  5.0 Mpps    1.8 Mpps
> 
> cpumap redirect with skb PP recycling:
> 
>   7.9 Mpps  5.7 Mpps    2.2 Mpps
>                        +22% (from cpumap redir on baseline)
> 
> [0] https://github.com/alobakin/linux/commits/iavf-xdp
> 
> Alexander Lobakin (4):
>   selftests/bpf: robustify test_xdp_do_redirect with more payload magics
>   net: page_pool, skbuff: make skb_mark_for_recycle() always available
>   xdp: recycle Page Pool backed skbs built from XDP frames
>   xdp: remove unused {__,}xdp_release_frame()
> 
>  include/linux/skbuff.h                        |  4 +--
>  include/net/xdp.h                             | 29 ---------------
>  net/core/xdp.c                                | 19 ++--------
>  .../bpf/progs/test_xdp_do_redirect.c          | 36 +++++++++++++------
>  4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> 
> ---
> From v2[1]:
> * fix the test_xdp_do_redirect selftest failing after the series: it was
>   relying on that %XDP_PASS frames can't be recycled on veth
>   (BPF CI, Alexei);
> * explain "w/o leaving its node" in the cover letter (Jesper).
> 
> From v1[2]:
> * make skb_mark_for_recycle() always available, otherwise there are build
>   failures on non-PP systems (kbuild bot);
> * 'Page Pool' -> 'page_pool' when it's about a page_pool instance, not
>   API (Jesper);
> * expanded test system info a bit in the cover letter (Jesper).
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230303133232.2546004-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230301160315.1022488-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com

Thanks,
Olek