This patch set adds the ability to use unaligned chunks in the XDP umem. Currently, all chunk addresses passed to the umem are masked to be chunk size aligned (max is PAGE_SIZE). This limits where we can place chunks within the umem as well as limiting the packet sizes that are supported. The changes in this patch set removes these restrictions, allowing XDP to be more flexible in where it can place a chunk within a umem. By relaxing where the chunks can be placed, it allows us to use an arbitrary buffer size and place that wherever we have a free address in the umem. These changes add the ability to support arbitrary frame sizes up to 4k (PAGE_SIZE) and make it easy to integrate with other existing frameworks that have their own memory management systems, such as DPDK. In DPDK, for example, there is already support for AF_XDP with zero-copy. However, with this patch set the integration will be much more seamless. You can find the DPDK AF_XDP driver at: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/net/af_xdp Since we are now dealing with arbitrary frame sizes, we need also need to update how we pass around addresses. Currently, the addresses can simply be masked to 2k to get back to the original address. This becomes less trivial when using frame sizes that are not a 'power of 2' size. This patch set modifies the Rx/Tx descriptor format to use the upper 16-bits of the addr field for an offset value, leaving the lower 48-bits for the address (this leaves us with 256 Terabytes, which should be enough!). We only need to use the upper 16-bits to store the offset when running in unaligned mode. Rather than adding the offset (headroom etc) to the address, we will store it in the upper 16-bits of the address field. This way, we can easily add the offset to the address where we need it, using some bit manipulation and addition, and we can also easily get the original address wherever we need it (for example in i40e_zca_free) by simply masking to get the lower 48-bits of the address field. The numbers below were recorded with the following set up: - Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz - Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XXV710 for 25GbE SFP28 (rev 02) - Driver: i40e - Application: xdpsock with l2fwd (single interface) These are solely for comparing performance with and without the patches. The largest drop was ~1% (in zero-copy mode). +-------------------------+------------+-----------------+-------------+ | Buffer size: 2048 | SKB mode | Zero-copy | Copy | +-------------------------+------------+-----------------+-------------+ | Aligned (baseline) | 1.7 Mpps | 15.3 Mpps | 2.08 Mpps | +-------------------------+------------+-----------------+-------------+ | Aligned (with patches) | 1.7 Mpps | 15.1 Mpps | 2.08 Mpps | +-------------------------+------------+-----------------+-------------+ | Unaligned | 1.7 Mpps | 14.5 Mpps | 2.08 Mpps | +-------------------------+------------+-----------------+-------------+ This patch set has been applied against commit 66b5f1c43984 ("net-ipv6-ndisc: add support for RFC7710 RA Captive Portal Identifier") Structure of the patch set: Patch 1: - Remove unnecessary masking and headroom addition during zero-copy Rx buffer recycling in i40e. This change is required in order for the buffer recycling to work in the unaligned chunk mode. Patch 2: - Remove unnecessary masking and headroom addition during zero-copy Rx buffer recycling in ixgbe. This change is required in order for the buffer recycling to work in the unaligned chunk mode. Patch 3: - Add infrastructure for unaligned chunks. Since we are dealing with unaligned chunks that could potentially cross a physical page boundary, we add checks to keep track of that information. We can later use this information to correctly handle buffers that are placed at an address where they cross a page boundary. This patch also modifies the existing Rx and Tx functions to use the new descriptor format. To handle addresses correctly, we need to mask appropriately based on whether we are in aligned or unaligned mode. Patch 4: - This patch updates the i40e driver to make use of the new descriptor format. Patch 5: - This patch updates the ixgbe driver to make use of the new descriptor format. Patch 6: - This patch updates the mlx5e driver to make use of the new descriptor format. These changes are required to handle the new descriptor format and for unaligned chunks support. Patch 7: - Add flags for umem configuration to libbpf Patch 8: - Modify xdpsock application to add a command line option for unaligned chunks Patch 9: - Since we can now run the application in unaligned chunk mode, we need to make sure we recycle the buffers appropriately. Patch 10: - Adds hugepage support to the xdpsock application Patch 11: - Documentation update to include the unaligned chunk scenario. We need to explicitly state that the incoming addresses are only masked in the aligned chunk mode and not the unaligned chunk mode. --- v2: - fixed checkpatch issues - fixed Rx buffer recycling for unaligned chunks in xdpsock - removed unused defines - fixed how chunk_size is calculated in xsk_diag.c - added some performance numbers to cover letter - modified descriptor format to make it easier to retrieve original address - removed patch adding off_t off to the zero copy allocator. This is no longer needed with the new descriptor format. v3: - added patch for mlx5 driver changes needed for unaligned chunks - moved offset handling to new helper function - changed value used for the umem chunk_mask. Now using the new descriptor format to save us doing the calculations in a number of places meaning more of the code is left unchanged while adding unaligned chunk support. Kevin Laatz (11): i40e: simplify Rx buffer recycle ixgbe: simplify Rx buffer recycle xsk: add support to allow unaligned chunk placement i40e: modify driver for handling offsets ixgbe: modify driver for handling offsets mlx5e: modify driver for handling offsets libbpf: add flags to umem config samples/bpf: add unaligned chunks mode support to xdpsock samples/bpf: add buffer recycling for unaligned chunks to xdpsock samples/bpf: use hugepages in xdpsock app doc/af_xdp: include unaligned chunk case Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst | 10 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c | 33 +++---- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_xsk.c | 33 +++---- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c | 8 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/tx.c | 9 +- include/net/xdp_sock.h | 17 ++++ include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h | 9 ++ net/xdp/xdp_umem.c | 18 ++-- net/xdp/xsk.c | 86 +++++++++++++++---- net/xdp/xsk_diag.c | 2 +- net/xdp/xsk_queue.h | 68 +++++++++++++-- samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c | 56 ++++++++---- tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h | 4 + tools/lib/bpf/xsk.c | 3 + tools/lib/bpf/xsk.h | 2 + 15 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1
