RE: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tun: AF_XDP Rx zero-copy support

[wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Wang [mailto:jasowang@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 12:49 PM
> > To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > Cc: mst@redhat.com; willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com; kuba@kernel.org;
> > davem@davemloft.net; magnus.karlsson@intel.com;
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tun: AF_XDP Rx zero-copy support
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM Yunjian Wang
> <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Now the zero-copy feature of AF_XDP socket is supported by some
> > > drivers, which can reduce CPU utilization on the xdp program.
> > > This patch set allows tun to support AF_XDP Rx zero-copy feature.
> > >
> > > This patch tries to address this by:
> > > - Use peek_len to consume a xsk->desc and get xsk->desc length.
> > > - When the tun support AF_XDP Rx zero-copy, the vq's array maybe empty.
> > > So add a check for empty vq's array in vhost_net_buf_produce().
> > > - add XDP_SETUP_XSK_POOL and ndo_xsk_wakeup callback support
> > > - add tun_put_user_desc function to copy the Rx data to VM
> >
> > Code explains themselves, let's explain why you need to do this.
> >
> > 1) why you want to use peek_len
> > 2) for "vq's array", what does it mean?
> > 3) from the view of TUN/TAP tun_put_user_desc() is the TX path, so I
> > guess you meant TX zerocopy instead of RX (as I don't see codes for
> > RX?)
> 
> OK, I agree and use TX zerocopy instead of RX zerocopy. I meant RX zerocopy
> from the view of vhost-net.
> 
> >
> > A big question is how could you handle GSO packets from userspace/guests?
> 
> Now by disabling VM's TSO and csum feature. XDP does not support GSO
> packets.
> However, this feature can be added once XDP supports it in the future.
> 
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/tun.c   | 165
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  drivers/vhost/net.c |  18 +++--
> > >  2 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

[...]

> > >
> > >  static int peek_head_len(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *rvq, struct
> > > sock
> > > *sk)  {
> > > +       struct socket *sock = sk->sk_socket;
> > >         struct sk_buff *head;
> > >         int len = 0;
> > >         unsigned long flags;
> > >
> > > -       if (rvq->rx_ring)
> > > -               return vhost_net_buf_peek(rvq);
> > > +       if (rvq->rx_ring) {
> > > +               len = vhost_net_buf_peek(rvq);
> > > +               if (likely(len))
> > > +                       return len;
> > > +       }
> > > +
> > > +       if (sock->ops->peek_len)
> > > +               return sock->ops->peek_len(sock);
> >
> > What prevents you from reusing the ptr_ring here? Then you don't need
> > the above tricks.
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion. I will consider how to reuse the ptr_ring.

If ptr_ring is used to transfer xdp_descs, there is a problem: After some
xdp_descs are obtained through xsk_tx_peek_desc(), the descs may fail
to be added to ptr_ring. However, no API is available to implement the
rollback function.

Thanks

> 
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > >
> > >         spin_lock_irqsave(&sk->sk_receive_queue.lock, flags);
> > >         head = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
> > > --
> > > 2.33.0
> > >