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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 5/6] xsk: respect device's headroom and tailroom on generic xmit path
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:44 PM Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> wrote:
>
> xsk_generic_xmit() allocates a new skb and then queues it for
> xmitting. The size of new skb's headroom is desc->len, so it comes
> to the driver/device with no reserved headroom and/or tailroom.
> Lots of drivers need some headroom (and sometimes tailroom) to
> prepend (and/or append) some headers or data, e.g. CPU tags,
> device-specific headers/descriptors (LSO, TLS etc.), and if case
> of no available space skb_cow_head() will reallocate the skb.
> Reallocations are unwanted on fast-path, especially when it comes
> to XDP, so generic XSK xmit should reserve the spaces declared in
> dev->needed_headroom and dev->needed tailroom to avoid them.
>
> Note on max(NET_SKB_PAD, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(dev->needed_headroom)):
>
> Usually, output functions reserve LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev), which
> consists of dev->hard_header_len + dev->needed_headroom, aligned
> by 16.
> However, on XSK xmit hard header is already here in the chunk, so
> hard_header_len is not needed. But it'd still be better to align
> data up to cacheline, while reserving no less than driver requests
> for headroom. NET_SKB_PAD here is to double-insure there will be
> no reallocations even when the driver advertises no needed_headroom,
> but in fact need it (not so rare case).
>
> Fixes: 35fcde7f8deb ("xsk: support for Tx")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>

Acked-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>

> ---
> net/xdp/xsk.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> index 4faabd1ecfd1..143979ea4165 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
> @@ -454,12 +454,16 @@ static int xsk_generic_xmit(struct sock *sk)
> struct sk_buff *skb;
> unsigned long flags;
> int err = 0;
> + u32 hr, tr;
>
> mutex_lock(&xs->mutex);
>
> if (xs->queue_id >= xs->dev->real_num_tx_queues)
> goto out;
>
> + hr = max(NET_SKB_PAD, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(xs->dev->needed_headroom));
> + tr = xs->dev->needed_tailroom;
> +
> while (xskq_cons_peek_desc(xs->tx, &desc, xs->pool)) {
> char *buffer;
> u64 addr;
> @@ -471,11 +475,13 @@ static int xsk_generic_xmit(struct sock *sk)
> }
>
> len = desc.len;
> - skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, len, 1, &err);
> + skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, hr + len + tr, 1, &err);
> if (unlikely(!skb))
> goto out;
>
> + skb_reserve(skb, hr);
> skb_put(skb, len);
> +
> addr = desc.addr;
> buffer = xsk_buff_raw_get_data(xs->pool, addr);
> err = skb_store_bits(skb, 0, buffer, len);
> --
> 2.30.1
>
>

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