From 039930945a72d9af5ff04ae9b9e60658a52e0770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:46:32 +0200 Subject: xdp: transition into using xdp_frame for return API Changing API xdp_return_frame() to take struct xdp_frame as argument, seems like a natural choice. But there are some subtle performance details here that needs extra care, which is a deliberate choice. When de-referencing xdp_frame on a remote CPU during DMA-TX completion, result in the cache-line is change to "Shared" state. Later when the page is reused for RX, then this xdp_frame cache-line is written, which change the state to "Modified". This situation already happens (naturally) for, virtio_net, tun and cpumap as the xdp_frame pointer is the queued object. In tun and cpumap, the ptr_ring is used for efficiently transferring cache-lines (with pointers) between CPUs. Thus, the only option is to de-referencing xdp_frame. It is only the ixgbe driver that had an optimization, in which it can avoid doing the de-reference of xdp_frame. The driver already have TX-ring queue, which (in case of remote DMA-TX completion) have to be transferred between CPUs anyhow. In this data area, we stored a struct xdp_mem_info and a data pointer, which allowed us to avoid de-referencing xdp_frame. To compensate for this, a prefetchw is used for telling the cache coherency protocol about our access pattern. My benchmarks show that this prefetchw is enough to compensate the ixgbe driver. V7: Adjust for commit d9314c474d4f ("i40e: add support for XDP_REDIRECT") V8: Adjust for commit bd658dda4237 ("net/mlx5e: Separate dma base address and offset in dma_sync call") Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/xdp.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/net/xdp.h') diff --git a/include/net/xdp.h b/include/net/xdp.h index d0ee437753dc..137ad5f9f40f 100644 --- a/include/net/xdp.h +++ b/include/net/xdp.h @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct xdp_frame *convert_to_xdp_frame(struct xdp_buff *xdp) return xdp_frame; } -void xdp_return_frame(void *data, struct xdp_mem_info *mem); +void xdp_return_frame(struct xdp_frame *xdpf); int xdp_rxq_info_reg(struct xdp_rxq_info *xdp_rxq, struct net_device *dev, u32 queue_index); -- cgit v1.2.3