Re: [PATCH V4 net-next 1/6] ethtool: add support to set/get tx copybreak buf size via ethtool

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On 10/14/21 4:39 AM, Guangbin Huang wrote:
> From: Hao Chen <chenhao288@hisilicon.com>
> 
> Add support for ethtool to set/get tx copybreak buf size.

What is the unit ?

Frankly, having to size the 'buffer' based on number of slots in TX ring buffer
is not good.

What happens later when/if ethtool -G tx xxxxx' is trying
to change number of slots ?

The 'tx copybreak' should instead give a number of bytes per TX ring slot.

Eg, 128 or 256 bytes.

This is very similar to what drivers using net/core/tso.c do.

They usually use TSO_HEADER_SIZE for this.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Hao Chen <chenhao288@hisilicon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 1 +
>  net/ethtool/common.c         | 1 +
>  net/ethtool/ioctl.c          | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> index a2223b685451..7bc4b8def12c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ enum tunable_id {
>  	ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK,
>  	ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK,
>  	ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT, /* timeout in msecs */
> +	ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK_BUF_SIZE,
>  	/*
>  	 * Add your fresh new tunable attribute above and remember to update
>  	 * tunable_strings[] in net/ethtool/common.c
> diff --git a/net/ethtool/common.c b/net/ethtool/common.c
> index c63e0739dc6a..0c5210015911 100644
> --- a/net/ethtool/common.c
> +++ b/net/ethtool/common.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ tunable_strings[__ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_COUNT][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>  	[ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK]	= "rx-copybreak",
>  	[ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK]	= "tx-copybreak",
>  	[ETHTOOL_PFC_PREVENTION_TOUT] = "pfc-prevention-tout",
> +	[ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK_BUF_SIZE] = "tx-copybreak-buf-size",
>  };
>  
>  const char
> diff --git a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
> index bf6e8c2f9bf7..617ebc4183d9 100644
> --- a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
> +++ b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
> @@ -2383,6 +2383,7 @@ static int ethtool_tunable_valid(const struct ethtool_tunable *tuna)
>  	switch (tuna->id) {
>  	case ETHTOOL_RX_COPYBREAK:
>  	case ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK:
> +	case ETHTOOL_TX_COPYBREAK_BUF_SIZE:
>  		if (tuna->len != sizeof(u32) ||
>  		    tuna->type_id != ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_U32)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>