From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
shayagr@amazon.com, "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@amazon.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com>,
"Karlsson, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>,
Tirthendu <tirthendu.sarkar@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 bpf-next 02/14] xdp: introduce flags field in xdp_buff/xdp_frame
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:25:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNsfPsG2+X6xxnE6@lore-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0Ucg5RbzKt63u5RfXee94kd+1oJ+o_qgUwCwnVCoQjDdPw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 5:43 AM Lorenzo Bianconi
> <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 5:50 AM Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Introduce flags field in xdp_frame/xdp_buffer data structure
> > > > to define additional buffer features. At the moment the only
> > > > supported buffer feature is multi-buffer bit (mb). Multi-buffer bit
> > > > is used to specify if this is a linear buffer (mb = 0) or a multi-buffer
> > > > frame (mb = 1). In the latter case the shared_info area at the end of
> > > > the first buffer will be properly initialized to link together
> > > > subsequent buffers.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > Instead of passing this between buffers and frames I wonder if this
> > > wouldn't be better to place in something like the xdp_mem_info
> > > structure since this is something that would be specific to how the
> > > device is handling memory anyway. You could probably split the type
> > > field into a 16b type and a 16b flags field. Then add your bit where 0
> > > is linear/legacy and 1 is scatter-gather/multi-buffer.
> > >
> >
> > ack, this should be fine but I put the flag field in xdp_buff/xdp_frame
> > in order to reuse it for some xdp hw-hints (e.g rx checksum type).
> > We can put it in xdp_mem_info too but I guess it would be less intuitive, what
> > do you think?
>
> I think it makes the most sense in xdp_mem_info. It already tells us
> what to expect in some respect in regards to memory layout as it tells
> us if we are dealing with shared pages or whole pages and how to
> recycle them. I would think that applies almost identically to
> scatter-gather XDP the same way.
>
> As far as the addition of flags there is still time for that later as
> we still have the 32b of unused space after frame_sz.
ack, I am fine with it. If everybody agree, I will fix it in v10.
Regards,
Lorenzo
>
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-14 12:49 [PATCH v9 bpf-next 00/14] mvneta: introduce XDP multi-buffer support Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 01/14] net: skbuff: add data_len field to skb_shared_info Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-28 19:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-29 12:44 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-29 17:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-06-29 18:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-29 18:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-06-29 19:11 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-06-29 19:18 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-29 20:45 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 02/14] xdp: introduce flags field in xdp_buff/xdp_frame Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-28 20:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-29 12:43 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-29 13:07 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-29 13:25 ` Lorenzo Bianconi [this message]
2021-07-05 15:52 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-07-05 21:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-07-06 11:53 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-07-06 14:04 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-07-06 17:47 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 03/14] net: mvneta: update mb bit before passing the xdp buffer to eBPF layer Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 04/14] xdp: add multi-buff support to xdp_return_{buff/frame} Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 05/14] net: mvneta: add multi buffer support to XDP_TX Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 06/14] net: mvneta: enable jumbo frames for XDP Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 07/14] net: xdp: add multi-buff support to xdp_build_skb_from_frame Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-28 21:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2021-06-29 18:34 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 08/14] bpf: add multi-buff support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-22 23:37 ` John Fastabend
2021-06-24 9:26 ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-06-24 14:24 ` John Fastabend
2021-06-24 15:16 ` Zvi Effron
2021-06-29 13:19 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-29 13:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-07-06 21:44 ` Backwards compatibility for XDP multi-buff (was: Re: [PATCH v9 bpf-next 08/14] bpf: add multi-buff support to the bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() API) Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 09/14] bpf: introduce bpf_xdp_get_buff_len helper Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 10/14] bpf: add multi-buffer support to xdp copy helpers Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-22 23:49 ` John Fastabend
2021-06-24 9:42 ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-06-24 14:28 ` John Fastabend
2021-06-25 8:25 ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-06-29 13:23 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-07-06 10:15 ` Eelco Chaudron
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 11/14] bpf: move user_size out of bpf_test_init Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 12/14] bpf: introduce multibuff support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 13/14] bpf: test_run: add xdp_shared_info pointer in bpf_test_finish signature Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-14 12:49 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 14/14] bpf: update xdp_adjust_tail selftest to include multi-buffer Lorenzo Bianconi
2021-06-22 23:18 ` [PATCH v9 bpf-next 00/14] mvneta: introduce XDP multi-buffer support John Fastabend
2021-06-23 3:41 ` David Ahern
2021-06-23 5:48 ` John Fastabend
2021-06-23 14:40 ` David Ahern
2021-06-24 14:22 ` John Fastabend
2021-07-01 7:56 ` Magnus Karlsson
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