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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com, echaudro@redhat.com,
	sameehj@amazon.com, kuba@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, ast@kernel.org, shayagr@amazon.com,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	brouer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/9] xdp: introduce mb in xdp_buff/xdp_frame
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 20:02:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200907200245.0cdb63f1@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <107260d3-1fea-b582-84d3-2d092f3112b1@gmail.com>

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:30:48 -0600
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/4/20 9:59 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >> dev_rx for example seems like it could just be the netdev
> >> index rather than a pointer or perhaps can be removed completely. I
> >> believe it is only used for 1 use case (redirects to CPUMAP); maybe that
> >> code can be refactored to handle the dev outside of xdp_frame.  
> > 
> > The dev_rx is needed when creating an SKB from a xdp_frame (basically
> > skb->dev = rx_dev). Yes, that is done in cpumap, but I want to
> > generalize this.  The veth also creates SKBs from xdp_frame, but use
> > itself as skb->dev.
> > 
> > And yes, we could save some space storing the index instead, and trade
> > space for cycles in a lookup.  
> 
> I think this can be managed without adding a reference to the xdp_frame.
> I'll start a separate thread on that.
> 
> >>
> >> As for frame_sz, why does it need to be larger than a u16?  
> > 
> > Because PAGE_SIZE can be 64KiB on some archs.
> >   

I also believe syzbot managed to create packets for generic-XDP with
frame_sz 128KiB, which was a bit weird (it's on my todo list to
investigate and fix).

> ok, is there any alignment requirement? can frame_sz be number of 32-bit
> words? I believe bit shifts are cheap.

No that is not possible, because some drivers and generic-XDP have a
fully dynamic frame_sz.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-07 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 20:58 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] mvneta: introduce XDP multi-buffer support Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/9] xdp: introduce mb in xdp_buff/xdp_frame Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  1:07   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-09-04  7:19     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-04 15:15       ` David Ahern
2020-09-04 15:59         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-04 16:30           ` David Ahern
2020-09-07 18:02             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2020-09-08  1:22               ` David Ahern
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/9] xdp: initialize xdp_buff mb bit to 0 in all XDP drivers Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  7:35   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-04  7:54     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/9] net: mvneta: update mb bit before passing the xdp buffer to eBPF layer Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-06  7:33   ` Shay Agroskin
2020-09-06  9:05     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/9] xdp: add multi-buff support to xdp_return_{buff/frame} Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/9] net: mvneta: add multi buffer support to XDP_TX Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-06  7:20   ` Shay Agroskin
2020-09-06  8:43     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/9] bpf: helpers: add bpf_xdp_adjust_mb_header helper Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  1:09   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-09-04  8:07     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  1:13   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-09-04  7:50     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04 13:52       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-04 14:27         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  6:47   ` John Fastabend
2020-09-04  9:45     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04 15:23       ` John Fastabend
2020-09-06 13:36         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-08 19:57           ` John Fastabend
2020-09-08 21:31             ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-09 20:51               ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/9] bpf: helpers: add multibuffer support Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 21:24   ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-09-04  9:47     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 8/9] samples/bpf: add bpf program that uses xdp mb helpers Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-03 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 9/9] net: mvneta: enable jumbo frames for XDP Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  1:08 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] mvneta: introduce XDP multi-buffer support Alexei Starovoitov
2020-09-04  7:40   ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2020-09-04  5:41 ` John Fastabend
2020-09-04  7:39   ` Lorenzo Bianconi

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