Merge branch 'xdp_xmit-bulking'

Jesper Dangaard Brouer says:

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This patchset change ndo_xdp_xmit API to take a bulk of xdp frames.

When kernel is compiled with CONFIG_RETPOLINE, every indirect function
pointer (branch) call hurts performance. For XDP this have a huge
negative performance impact.

This patchset reduce the needed (indirect) calls to ndo_xdp_xmit, but
also prepares for further optimizations.  The DMA APIs use of indirect
function pointer calls is the primary source the regression.  It is
left for a followup patchset, to use bulking calls towards the DMA API
(via the scatter-gatter calls).

The other advantage of this API change is that drivers can easier
amortize the cost of any sync/locking scheme, over the bulk of
packets.  The assumption of the current API is that the driver
implemementing the NDO will also allocate a dedicated XDP TX queue for
every CPU in the system.  Which is not always possible or practical to
configure. E.g. ixgbe cannot load an XDP program on a machine with
more than 96 CPUs, due to limited hardware TX queues.  E.g. virtio_net
is hard to configure as it requires manually increasing the
queues. E.g. tun driver chooses to use a per XDP frame producer lock
modulo smp_processor_id over avail queues.

I'm considered adding 'flags' to ndo_xdp_xmit, but it's not part of
this patchset.  This will be a followup patchset, once we know if this
will be needed (e.g. for non-map xdp_redirect flush-flag, and if
AF_XDP chooses to use ndo_xdp_xmit for TX).

---
V5: Fixed up issues spotted by Daniel and John

V4: Splitout the patches from 4 to 8 patches.  I cannot split the
driver changes from the NDO change, but I've tried to isolated the NDO
change together with the driver change as much as possible.
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 03ed492c4e14..debdb6286170 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1185,9 +1185,13 @@ struct dev_ifalias {
  *	This function is used to set or query state related to XDP on the
  *	netdevice and manage BPF offload. See definition of
  *	enum bpf_netdev_command for details.
- * int (*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdp);
- *	This function is used to submit a XDP packet for transmit on a
- *	netdevice.
+ * int (*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, int n, struct xdp_frame **xdp);
+ *	This function is used to submit @n XDP packets for transmit on a
+ *	netdevice. Returns number of frames successfully transmitted, frames
+ *	that got dropped are freed/returned via xdp_return_frame().
+ *	Returns negative number, means general error invoking ndo, meaning
+ *	no frames were xmit'ed and core-caller will free all frames.
+ *	TODO: Consider add flag to allow sending flush operation.
  * void (*ndo_xdp_flush)(struct net_device *dev);
  *	This function is used to inform the driver to flush a particular
  *	xdp tx queue. Must be called on same CPU as xdp_xmit.
@@ -1375,8 +1379,8 @@ struct net_device_ops {
 						       int needed_headroom);
 	int			(*ndo_bpf)(struct net_device *dev,
 					   struct netdev_bpf *bpf);
-	int			(*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev,
-						struct xdp_frame *xdp);
+	int			(*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, int n,
+						struct xdp_frame **xdp);
 	void			(*ndo_xdp_flush)(struct net_device *dev);
 };