[PATCH net-next v7 0/9] Device memory TCP TX

Mina Almasry
2025-03-08T21:40:47Z

v7: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250227041209.2031104-1-almasrymina@google.com/
===

Changelog:
- Check the dmabuf net_iov binding belongs to the device the TX is going
out on. (Jakub)
- Provide detailed inspection of callsites of
__skb_frag_ref/skb_page_unref in patch 2's changelog (Jakub)

v6: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250222191517.743530-1-almasrymina@google.com/
===

v6 has no major changes. Addressed a few issues from Paolo and David,
and collected Acks from Stan. Thank you everyone for the review!

Changes:
- retain behavior to process MSG_FASTOPEN even if the provided cmsg is
invalid (Paolo).
- Rework the freeing of tx_vec slightly (it now has its own err label).
(Paolo).
- Squash the commit that makes dmabuf unbinding scheduled work into the
same one which implements the TX path so we don't run into future
errors on bisecting (Paolo).
- Fix/add comments to explain how dmabuf binding refcounting works
(David).

v5: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250220020914.895431-1-almasrymina@google.com/
===

v5 has no major changes; it clears up the relatively minor issues
pointed out to in v4, and rebases the series on top of net-next to
resolve the conflict with a patch that raced to the tree. It also
collects the review tags from v4.

Changes:
- Rebase to net-next
- Fix issues in selftest (Stan).
- Address comments in the devmem and netmem driver docs (Stan and Bagas)
- Fix zerocopy_fill_skb_from_devmem return error code (Stan).

v4: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250203223916.1064540-1-almasrymina@google.com/
===

v4 mainly addresses the critical driver support issue surfaced in v3 by
Paolo and Stan. Drivers aiming to support netmem_tx should make sure not
to pass the netmem dma-addrs to the dma-mapping APIs, as these dma-addrs
may come from dma-bufs.

Additionally other feedback from v3 is addressed.

Major changes:
- Add helpers to handle netmem dma-addrs. Add GVE support for
netmem_tx.
- Fix binding->tx_vec not being freed on error paths during the
tx binding.
- Add a minimal devmem_tx test to devmem.py.
- Clean up everything obsolete from the cover letter (Paolo).

v3: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=929401&state=*
===

Address minor comments from RFCv2 and fix a few build warnings and
ynl-regen issues. No major changes.

RFC v2: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=920056&state=*
=======

RFC v2 addresses much of the feedback from RFC v1. I plan on sending
something close to this as net-next reopens, sending it slightly early
to get feedback if any.

Major changes:
--------------

- much improved UAPI as suggested by Stan. We now interpret the iov_base
of the passed in iov from userspace as the offset into the dmabuf to
send from. This removes the need to set iov.iov_base = NULL which may
be confusing to users, and enables us to send multiple iovs in the
same sendmsg() call. ncdevmem and the docs show a sample use of that.

- Removed the duplicate dmabuf iov_iter in binding->iov_iter. I think
this is good improvment as it was confusing to keep track of
2 iterators for the same sendmsg, and mistracking both iterators
caused a couple of bugs reported in the last iteration that are now
resolved with this streamlining.

- Improved test coverage in ncdevmem. Now multiple sendmsg() are tested,
and sending multiple iovs in the same sendmsg() is tested.

- Fixed issue where dmabuf unmapping was happening in invalid context
(Stan).

====================================================================

The TX path had been dropped from the Device Memory TCP patch series
post RFCv1 [1], to make that series slightly easier to review. This
series rebases the implementation of the TX path on top of the
net_iov/netmem framework agreed upon and merged. The motivation for
the feature is thoroughly described in the docs & cover letter of the
original proposal, so I don't repeat the lengthy descriptions here, but
they are available in [1].

Full outline on usage of the TX path is detailed in the documentation
included with this series.

Test example is available via the kselftest included in the series as well.

The series is relatively small, as the TX path for this feature largely
piggybacks on the existing MSG_ZEROCOPY implementation.

Patch Overview:
---------------

1. Documentation & tests to give high level overview of the feature
being added.

1. Add netmem refcounting needed for the TX path.

2. Devmem TX netlink API.

3. Devmem TX net stack implementation.

4. Make dma-buf unbinding scheduled work to handle TX cases where it gets
freed from contexts where we can't sleep.

5. Add devmem TX documentation.

6. Add scaffolding enabling driver support for netmem_tx. Add helpers, driver
feature flag, and docs to enable drivers to declare netmem_tx support.

7. Guard netmem_tx against being enabled against drivers that don't
support it.

8. Add devmem_tx selftests. Add TX path to ncdevmem and add a test to
devmem.py.

Testing:
--------

Testing is very similar to devmem TCP RX path. The ncdevmem test used
for the RX path is now augemented with client functionality to test TX
path.

* Test Setup:

Kernel: net-next with this RFC and memory provider API cherry-picked
locally.

Hardware: Google Cloud A3 VMs.

NIC: GVE with header split & RSS & flow steering support.

Performance results are not included with this version, unfortunately.
I'm having issues running the dma-buf exporter driver against the
upstream kernel on my test setup. The issues are specific to that
dma-buf exporter and do not affect this patch series. I plan to follow
up this series with perf fixes if the tests point to issues once they're
up and running.

Special thanks to Stan who took a stab at rebasing the TX implementation
on top of the netmem/net_iov framework merged. Parts of his proposal [2]
that are reused as-is are forked off into their own patches to give full
credit.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240909054318.1809580-1-almasrymina@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240913150913.1280238-2-sdf@fomichev.me/T/#m066dd407fbed108828e2c40ae50e3f4376ef57fd

Cc: sdf@fomichev.me
Cc: asml.silence@gmail.com
Cc: dw@davidwei.uk
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>

Mina Almasry (8):
netmem: add niov->type attribute to distinguish different net_iov
types
net: add get_netmem/put_netmem support
net: devmem: Implement TX path
net: add devmem TCP TX documentation
net: enable driver support for netmem TX
gve: add netmem TX support to GVE DQO-RDA mode
net: check for driver support in netmem TX
selftests: ncdevmem: Implement devmem TCP TX

Stanislav Fomichev (1):
net: devmem: TCP tx netlink api

Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 12 +
Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 150 ++++++++-
.../networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst | 1 +
Documentation/networking/netdev-features.rst | 5 +
Documentation/networking/netmem.rst | 23 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 4 +
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_tx_dqo.c | 8 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 17 +-
include/linux/skbuff_ref.h | 4 +-
include/net/netmem.h | 38 ++-
include/net/sock.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 1 +
net/core/datagram.c | 48 ++-
net/core/dev.c | 33 ++
net/core/devmem.c | 118 ++++++-
net/core/devmem.h | 83 ++++-
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c | 13 +
net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h | 1 +
net/core/netdev-genl.c | 73 ++++-
net/core/skbuff.c | 48 ++-
net/core/sock.c | 6 +
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 3 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 50 ++-
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +-
net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 5 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 1 +
.../selftests/drivers/net/hw/devmem.py | 26 +-
.../selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c | 300 +++++++++++++++++-
29 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

base-commit: 8ef890df4031121a94407c84659125cbccd3fdbe
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