The first couple of patches adds helper funcctions to prepare for AF_XDP zero-copy support which comes in the last couple of patches, one each for Rx and TX paths. As mentioned in v1 patchset [0], I don't have access to an actual IGB device to provide correct performance numbers. I have used Intel 82576EB emulator in QEMU [1] to test the changes to IGB driver. The tests use one isolated vCPU for RX/TX and one isolated vCPU for the xdp-sock application [2]. Hope these measurements provide at the least some indication on the increase in performance when using ZC, especially in the TX path. It would be awesome if someone with a real IGB NIC can test the patch. AF_XDP performance using 64 byte packets in Kpps. Benchmark: XDP-SKB XDP-DRV XDP-DRV(ZC) rxdrop 220 235 350 txpush 1.000 1.000 410 l2fwd 1.000 1.000 200 AF_XDP performance using 1500 byte packets in Kpps. Benchmark: XDP-SKB XDP-DRV XDP-DRV(ZC) rxdrop 200 210 310 txpush 1.000 1.000 410 l2fwd 0.900 1.000 160 [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20230704095915.9750-1-sriram.yagnaraman@xxxxxxxx/ [1]: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/igb.html [2]: https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/tree/master/AF_XDP-example v3->v4: - NULL check buffer_info in igb_dump before dereferencing (Simon Horman) v2->v3: - Avoid TX unit hang when using AF_XDP zero-copy by setting time_stamp on the tx_buffer_info - Fix uninitialized nb_buffs (Simon Horman) v1->v2: - Use batch XSK APIs (Maciej Fijalkowski) - Follow reverse xmas tree convention and remove the ternary operator use (Simon Horman) Sriram Yagnaraman (4): igb: prepare for AF_XDP zero-copy support igb: Introduce XSK data structures and helpers igb: add AF_XDP zero-copy Rx support igb: add AF_XDP zero-copy Tx support drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb.h | 35 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 186 ++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_xsk.c | 522 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_xsk.c -- 2.34.1
