RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v4 net-next 3/9] ice: respect metadata in legacy-rx/ice_construct_skb()

["Bhandare, KiranX" <kiranx.bhandare@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org> On Behalf Of
> Alexander Lobakin
> Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 7:37 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>; Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>;
> Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>; Daniel Borkmann
> <daniel@iogearbox.net>; John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>;
> Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>; Yonghong Song
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> <kpsingh@kernel.org>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; David S. Miller
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> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v4 net-next 3/9] ice: respect metadata in
> legacy-rx/ice_construct_skb()
> 
> In "legacy-rx" mode represented by ice_construct_skb(), we can still use XDP
> (and XDP metadata), but after XDP_PASS the metadata will be lost as it
> doesn't get copied to the skb.
> Copy it along with the frame headers. Account its size on skb allocation, and
> when copying just treat it as a part of the frame and do a pull after to "move"
> it to the "reserved" zone.
> Point net_prefetch() to xdp->data_meta instead of data. This won't change
> anything when the meta is not here, but will save some cache misses
> otherwise.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c | 15 +++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Tested-by: Kiran Bhandare <kiranx.bhandare@intel.com>  A Contingent Worker at Intel