Re: [PATCH intel-next 2/2] ice: introduce XDP Tx fallback path

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

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 01:52:38AM +0100, Nguyen, Anthony L wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:32 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > Under rare circumstances there might be a situation where a
> > requirement
> > of having a XDP Tx queue per core could not be fulfilled and some of
> > the
> > Tx resources would have to be shared between cores. This yields a
> > need
> > for placing accesses to xdp_rings array onto critical section
> > protected
> > by spinlock.
> >
> > Design of handling such scenario is to at first find out how many
> > queues
> > are there that XDP could use. Any number that is not less than the
> > half
> > of a count of cores of platform is allowed. XDP queue count < cpu
> > count
> > is signalled via new VSI state ICE_VSI_XDP_FALLBACK which carries the
> > information further down to Rx rings where new ICE_TX_XDP_LOCKED is
> > set
> > based on the mentioned VSI state. This ring flag indicates that
> > locking
> > variants for getting/putting xdp_ring need to be used in fast path.
> >
> > For XDP_REDIRECT the impact on standard case (one XDP ring per CPU)
> > can
> > be reduced a bit by providing a separate ndo_xdp_xmit and swap it at
> > configuration time. However, due to the fact that net_device_ops
> > struct
> > is a const, it is not possible to replace a single ndo, so for the
> > locking variant of ndo_xdp_xmit, whole net_device_ops needs to be
> > replayed.
> >
> > It has an impact on performance (1-2 %) of a non-fallback path as
> > branches are introduced.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.h          | 37 +++++++++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_base.c     |  5 ++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c      |  4 +-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c     | 76
> > ++++++++++++++++++-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c     | 62 ++++++++++++++-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h     |  2 +
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.c | 13 +++-
> >  7 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> This isn't applying to next-queue/dev-queue. I believe it's becuase the
> branch has the soon to be sent tracing patch from Magnus [1].

Thanks for a heads up Tony, I'll send rebased revision.

> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-
> lan/patch/20210510093854.31652-3-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com/