Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: socionext: get rid of huge dma sync in netsec_alloc_rx_data

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:34:13 +0100
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> wrote:

> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 02:57:44PM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:  
> > > Socionext driver can run on dma coherent and non-coherent devices.
> > > Get rid of huge dma_sync_single_for_device in netsec_alloc_rx_data since
> > > now the driver can let page_pool API to managed needed DMA sync
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > > Changes since v1:
> > > - rely on original frame size for dma sync
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/netsec.c | 43 +++++++++++++++----------
> > >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > >   
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > @@ -883,6 +881,8 @@ static u32 netsec_xdp_xmit_back(struct netsec_priv *priv, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > >  static u32 netsec_run_xdp(struct netsec_priv *priv, struct bpf_prog *prog,
> > >  			  struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > >  {
> > > +	struct netsec_desc_ring *dring = &priv->desc_ring[NETSEC_RING_RX];
> > > +	unsigned int len = xdp->data_end - xdp->data;  
> > 
> > We need to account for XDP expanding the headers as well here. 
> > So something like max(xdp->data_end(before bpf), xdp->data_end(after bpf)) -
> > xdp->data (original)  
> 
> correct, the corner case that is not covered at the moment is when data_end is
> moved forward by the bpf program. I will fix it in v3. Thx

Maybe we can simplify do:

 void *data_start = NETSEC_RXBUF_HEADROOM + xdp->data_hard_start;
 unsigned int len = xdp->data_end - data_start;

The cache-lines that need to be flushed/synced for_device is the area
used by NIC DMA engine.  We know it will always start at a certain
point (given driver configured hardware to this).

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer