From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
stfomichev@gmail.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
horms@kernel.org, bjorn@kernel.org, lorenzo@kernel.org,
hawk@kernel.org, toke@redhat.com,
Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC net-next 2/4] xdp: return status from generic_xdp_tx()
Date: Sat, 9 May 2026 10:48:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260509084858.773921-3-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260509084858.773921-1-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
Once veth will start to use __do_xdp_generic(), this will be helpful for
correct stats values being incremented - otherwise we would not have a
knowledge whether XDP_TX succeeded or not. With this being implemented we
will only bump xdp_tx stat when actual transmission happened.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +-
kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 2 +-
net/core/dev.c | 11 +++++++++--
net/core/filter.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 47417b2d48a4..473b18b0bb63 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -4255,7 +4255,7 @@ static inline void dev_consume_skb_any(struct sk_buff *skb)
u32 bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct xdp_buff *xdp,
const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog);
-void generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog);
+int generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog);
int do_xdp_generic(const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog, struct sk_buff **pskb);
int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
int __netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
index 3d619d01088e..b7a4a0266345 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/devmap.c
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ int dev_map_generic_redirect(struct bpf_dtab_netdev *dst, struct sk_buff *skb,
return 0;
skb->dev = dst->dev;
- generic_xdp_tx(skb, xdp_prog);
+ (void)generic_xdp_tx(skb, xdp_prog);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6cc2a5bed20f..09012cdea376 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5628,11 +5628,12 @@ static u32 netif_receive_generic_xdp(struct sk_buff **pskb,
* and DDOS attacks will be more effective. In-driver-XDP use dedicated TX
* queues, so they do not have this starvation issue.
*/
-void generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog)
+int generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog)
{
struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
struct netdev_queue *txq;
bool free_skb = true;
+ int err = -ENETDOWN;
int cpu, rc;
txq = netdev_core_pick_tx(dev, skb, NULL);
@@ -5640,8 +5641,12 @@ void generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog)
HARD_TX_LOCK(dev, txq, cpu);
if (!netif_xmit_frozen_or_drv_stopped(txq)) {
rc = netdev_start_xmit(skb, dev, txq, 0);
- if (dev_xmit_complete(rc))
+ if (dev_xmit_complete(rc)) {
free_skb = false;
+ err = 0;
+ } else {
+ err = -EBUSY;
+ }
}
HARD_TX_UNLOCK(dev, txq);
if (free_skb) {
@@ -5649,6 +5654,8 @@ void generic_xdp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog)
dev_core_stats_tx_dropped_inc(dev);
kfree_skb(skb);
}
+
+ return err;
}
static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(generic_xdp_needed_key);
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index bf9c37b27646..d6d14e0a1e35 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -4619,7 +4619,7 @@ int xdp_do_generic_redirect(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
skb->dev = fwd;
_trace_xdp_redirect(dev, xdp_prog, ri->tgt_index);
- generic_xdp_tx(skb, xdp_prog);
+ (void)generic_xdp_tx(skb, xdp_prog);
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-09 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-09 8:48 [PATCH RFC net-next 0/4] xdp: reuse generic skb XDP handling for veth Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-09 8:48 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 1/4] xdp: add mixed page_pool/page_shared memory type Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-09 8:48 ` Maciej Fijalkowski [this message]
2026-05-12 12:57 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 2/4] xdp: return status from generic_xdp_tx() Björn Töpel
2026-05-12 17:13 ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-09 8:48 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 3/4] xdp: split generic XDP skb handling Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-09 8:48 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 4/4] veth: use generic skb XDP handling Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-12 14:32 ` Björn Töpel
2026-05-12 17:06 ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2026-05-13 11:31 ` Björn Töpel
2026-05-12 12:55 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 0/4] xdp: reuse generic skb XDP handling for veth Björn Töpel
2026-05-12 17:12 ` Maciej Fijalkowski
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