Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] cpumap: bulk skb using netif_receive_skb_list

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 4/15/21 9:03 AM, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
>> On 4/15/21 8:05 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> 
> [...]
>>>> &stats);
>>>
>>> Given we stop counting drops with the netif_receive_skb_list(), we
>>> should then
>>> also remove drops from trace_xdp_cpumap_kthread(), imho, as otherwise it
>>> is rather
>>> misleading (as in: drops actually happening, but 0 are shown from the
>>> tracepoint).
>>> Given they are not considered stable API, I would just remove those to
>>> make it clear
>>> to users that they cannot rely on this counter anymore anyway.
>>>
>>
>> What's the visibility into drops then? Seems like it would be fairly
>> easy to have netif_receive_skb_list return number of drops.
>>
> 
> In order to return drops from netif_receive_skb_list() I guess we need to introduce
> some extra checks in the hot path. Moreover packet drops are already accounted
> in the networking stack and this is currently the only consumer for this info.
> Does it worth to do so?

right - softnet_stat shows the drop. So the loss here is that the packet
is from a cpumap XDP redirect.

Better insights into drops is needed, but I guess in this case coming
from the cpumap does not really aid into why it is dropped - that is
more core to __netif_receive_skb_list_core. I guess this is ok to drop
the counter from the tracepoint.