Re: [PATCH iwl-next] ice: add a separate Rx handler for flow director commands

[Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 04:13:57PM +0100, Michal Kubiak wrote:
> The "ice" driver implementation uses the control VSI to handle
> the flow director configuration for PFs and VFs.
> 
> Unfortunately, although a separate VSI type was created to handle flow
> director queues, the Rx queue handler was shared between the flow
> director and a standard NAPI Rx handler.
> 
> Such a design approach was not very flexible. First, it mixed hotpath
> and slowpath code, blocking their further optimization. It also created
> a huge overkill for the flow director command processing, which is
> descriptor-based only, so there is no need to allocate Rx data buffers.
> 
> For the above reasons, implement a separate Rx handler for the control
> VSI. Also, remove from the NAPI handler the code dedicated to
> configuring the flow director rules on VFs.
> Do not allocate Rx data buffers to the flow director queues because
> their processing is descriptor-based only.
> Finally, allow Rx data queues to be allocated only for VSIs that have
> netdev assigned to them.
> 
> This handler splitting approach is the first step in converting the
> driver to use the Page Pool (which can only be used for data queues).
> 
> Test hints:
>   1. Create a VF for any PF managed by the ice driver.
>   2. In a loop, add and delete flow director rules for the VF, e.g.:
> 
>        for i in {1..128}; do
>            q=$(( i % 16 ))
>            ethtool -N ens802f0v0 flow-type tcp4 dst-port "$i" action "$q"
>        done
> 
>        for i in {0..127}; do
>            ethtool -N ens802f0v0 delete "$i"
>        done
> 
> Suggested-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@intel.com>
> ---

(...)

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h
> index 4b63081629d0..041768df0b23 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h
> @@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ static inline unsigned int ice_rx_pg_order(struct ice_rx_ring *ring)
>  
>  union ice_32b_rx_flex_desc;
>  
> +void ice_init_ctrl_rx_descs(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring, u32 num_descs);
>  bool ice_alloc_rx_bufs(struct ice_rx_ring *rxr, unsigned int cleaned_count);
>  netdev_tx_t ice_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev);
>  u16
> @@ -512,4 +513,5 @@ ice_prgm_fdir_fltr(struct ice_vsi *vsi, struct ice_fltr_desc *fdir_desc,
>  		   u8 *raw_packet);
>  int ice_clean_rx_irq(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring, int budget);

this can now become static as it's not called from ice_lib.c anymore.
can you address this in v2 if this patch got lost and has not been merged
yet?

>  void ice_clean_ctrl_tx_irq(struct ice_tx_ring *tx_ring);
> +void ice_clean_ctrl_rx_irq(struct ice_rx_ring *rx_ring);
>  #endif /* _ICE_TXRX_H_ */
> -- 
> 2.45.2
>