[PATCH net 0/2] veth: schedule the peer's NAPI after XDP_TX when only GRO is enabled

[Tianyi Gao <tianyi@cloudflare.com>]

When an XDP program on a veth device returns XDP_TX and the peer has
GRO enabled but no XDP program, the frames are queued on the peer's
ring, but the peer's NAPI is never scheduled to process them. Once the
ring is full, every XDP_TX frame is dropped.

Commit 0e672f306a28 ("veth: check for NAPI instead of xdp_prog before
xmit of XDP frame") made such a peer work as an XDP_REDIRECT target,
where veth_xdp_xmit() both queues the frames and schedules the peer's
NAPI. XDP_TX queues its frames through the same function but schedules
the NAPI in veth_xdp_flush(), which still checks xdp_prog.

The usual workaround is to load a dummy XDP program on the peer [1].
That turns off TSO on the device, and every skb it sends then goes
through the peer's XDP path, where most of them are copied. In our
tests, TCP sent from a namespace dropped from 22.1 to 14.8 Gbit/s with
the dummy program. With this fix the program is no longer needed.

Patch 1 makes veth_xdp_flush() check the peer's napi pointer, as
veth_xdp_xmit() does. Patch 2 adds a test for this case to veth.sh.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/fb2d324b-35fb-802d-2e1d-1ee1aa234c16@gmail.com/

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Bochao Cao's migration of the XDP feature test [2] skips XDP_TX on veth
when the peer has no XDP program, which is the case patch 1 fixes.

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20261010-xdp-v5-send-20261008-v5-0-de687cb67c40@gmail.com/

Tianyi Gao (2):
  veth: schedule the peer's NAPI after XDP_TX when only GRO is enabled
  selftests: net: veth: test XDP_TX to a peer with GRO enabled

 drivers/net/veth.c                            |  2 +-
 .../testing/selftests/net/lib/xdp_dummy.bpf.c |  6 +++++
 tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh           | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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