From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
mst@redhat.com, makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp,
jasowang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, hawk@kernel.org,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <thoiland@redhat.com>,
brouer@redhat.com,
"Jakub Kicinski" <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
"Saeed Mahameed" <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
"Tariq Toukan" <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:53:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204125307.08492005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8c97120-851f-450f-dc71-59350236329e@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 14:27:26 -0700
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/19 1:15 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> >>
> >> David, Jesper, care to chime in where we ended up in that last thread
> >> discussion this?
> >
> > IHMO packets RX and TX on a device need to be accounted, in standard
> > counters, regardless of XDP. For XDP RX the packet is counted as RX,
> > regardless if XDP choose to XDP_DROP. On XDP TX which is via
> > XDP_REDIRECT or XDP_TX, the driver that transmit the packet need to
> > account the packet in a TX counter (this if often delayed to DMA TX
> > completion handling). We cannot break the expectation that RX and TX
> > counter are visible to userspace stats tools. XDP should not make these
> > packets invisible.
>
> Agreed. What I was pushing on that last thread was Rx, Tx and dropped
> are all accounted by the driver in standard stats. Basically if the
> driver touched it, the driver's counters should indicate that.
Sound like we all agree (except with the dropped counter, see below).
Do notice that mlx5 driver doesn't do this. It is actually rather
confusing to use XDP on mlx5, as when XDP "consume" which include
XDP_DROP, XDP_REDIRECT or XDP_TX, then the driver standard stats are
not incremented... the packet is invisible to "ifconfig" stat based
tools.
> The push back was on dropped packets and whether that counter should be
> bumped on XDP_DROP.
My opinion is the XDP_DROP action should NOT increment the drivers drop
counter. First of all the "dropped" counter is also use for other
stuff, which will confuse that this counter express. Second, choosing
XDP_DROP is a policy choice, it still means it was RX-ed at the driver
level.
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-04 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-31 11:40 [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames Toshiaki Makita
2019-01-31 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-31 17:45 ` David Miller
2019-01-31 20:15 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-01 1:53 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-02-02 21:27 ` David Ahern
2019-02-04 11:53 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2019-02-05 3:13 ` David Ahern
2019-02-06 0:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-06 13:48 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-06 15:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-07 7:48 ` Resource management for ndo_xdp_xmit (Was: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-07 19:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-08 16:55 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-08 22:49 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-08 23:17 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-09 0:18 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-09 2:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-09 16:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-09 16:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-08 16:02 ` [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-04-18 14:24 ` Stats for XDP actions (was: Re: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames) Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-21 0:16 ` Stats for XDP actions David Ahern
2019-06-20 20:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-06-21 0:42 ` David Ahern
2019-06-21 13:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-04 4:18 ` [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames David Miller
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