Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] ethtool: add support for controling the type of adaptive coalescing

[tanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>]

On 2020/11/20 6:02, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:56:42PM +0800, tanhuazhong wrote:
>> On 2020/11/19 12:15, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
>>>> index 9ca87bc..afd8de2 100644
>>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
>>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
>>>> @@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ struct ethtool_modinfo {
>>>>     *	a TX interrupt, when the packet rate is above @pkt_rate_high.
>>>>     * @rate_sample_interval: How often to do adaptive coalescing packet rate
>>>>     *	sampling, measured in seconds.  Must not be zero.
>>>> + * @use_dim: Use DIM for IRQ coalescing, if adaptive coalescing is enabled.
>>>>     *
>>>>     * Each pair of (usecs, max_frames) fields specifies that interrupts
>>>>     * should be coalesced until
>>>> @@ -483,6 +484,7 @@ struct ethtool_coalesce {
>>>>    	__u32	tx_coalesce_usecs_high;
>>>>    	__u32	tx_max_coalesced_frames_high;
>>>>    	__u32	rate_sample_interval;
>>>> +	__u32	use_dim;
>>>>    };
>>>
>>> You cannot do this.
>>>
>>> static noinline_for_stack int ethtool_set_coalesce(struct net_device *dev,
>>>                                                      void __user *useraddr)
>>> {
>>>           struct ethtool_coalesce coalesce;
>>>           int ret;
>>>
>>>           if (!dev->ethtool_ops->set_coalesce)
>>>                   return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>>
>>>           if (copy_from_user(&coalesce, useraddr, sizeof(coalesce)))
>>>                   return -EFAULT;
>>>
>>> An old ethtool binary is not going to set this extra last byte to
>>> anything meaningful. You cannot tell if you have an old or new user
>>> space, so you have no idea if it put anything into use_dim, or if it
>>> is random junk.
> 
> Even worse, as there is no indication of data length, ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE
> ioctl request from old ethtool on new kernel would result in kernel
> writing past the end of userspace buffer.
> 
>>> You have to leave the IOCTL interface unchanged, and limit this new
>>> feature to the netlink API.
>>>
>>
>> Hi, Andrew.
>> thanks for pointing out this problem, i will fix it.
>> without callling set_coalesce/set_coalesce of ethtool_ops, do you have any
>> suggestion for writing/reading this new attribute to/from the driver? add a
>> new field in net_device or a new callback function in ethtool_ops seems not
>> good.
> 
> We could use a similar approach as struct ethtool_link_ksettings, e.g.
> 
> 	struct kernel_ethtool_coalesce {
> 		struct ethtool_coalesce base;
> 		/* new members which are not part of UAPI */
> 	}
> 
> get_coalesce() and set_coalesce() would get pointer to struct
> kernel_ethtool_coalesce and ioctl code would be modified to only touch
> the base (legacy?) part.
> 

Thanks for your suggestion. i will implement it in V2.

> While already changing the ops arguments, we could also add extack
> pointer, either as a separate argument or as struct member (I slightly
> prefer the former).
> 
> BtW, please don't forget to update the message descriptions in
> Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
> 
> Michal
> 

will update the doc in V2.

Thanks.
Huazhong.

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