Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: lan966x: Add xdp support

From: Alexander Lobakin
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 06:21:18 EST


From: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 21:46:09 +0100

> Add support for xdp in lan966x driver. Currently only XDP_PASS and
> XDP_DROP are supported.
>
> The first 2 patches are just moving things around just to simplify
> the code for when the xdp is added.
> Patch 3 actually adds the xdp. Currently the only supported actions
> are XDP_PASS and XDP_DROP. In the future this will be extended with
> XDP_TX and XDP_REDIRECT.
> Patch 4 changes to use page pool API, because the handling of the
> pages is similar with what already lan966x driver is doing. In this
> way is possible to remove some of the code.
>
> All these changes give a small improvement on the RX side:
> Before:
> iperf3 -c 10.96.10.1 -R
> [ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 514 MBytes 430 Mbits/sec 0 sender
> [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 509 MBytes 427 Mbits/sec receiver
>
> After:
> iperf3 -c 10.96.10.1 -R
> [ 5] 0.00-10.02 sec 540 MBytes 452 Mbits/sec 0 sender
> [ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 537 MBytes 450 Mbits/sec receiver

A bit confusing name 'max_mtu' which in fact represents the max
frame len + skb overhead (4th patch), but it's more of a personal
taste probably.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>

Nice stuff! I hear time to time that XDP is for 10G+ NICs only, but
I'm not a fan of such, and this series proves once again XDP fits
any hardware ^.^

>
> ---
> v2->v3:
> - inline lan966x_xdp_port_present
> - update max_len of page_pool_params not to be the page size anymore but
> actually be rx->max_mtu.
>
> v1->v2:
> - rebase on net-next, once the fixes for FDMA and MTU were accepted
> - drop patch 2, which changes the MTU as is not needed anymore
> - allow to run xdp programs on frames bigger than 4KB
>
> Horatiu Vultur (4):
> net: lan966x: Add define IFH_LEN_BYTES
> net: lan966x: Split function lan966x_fdma_rx_get_frame
> net: lan966x: Add basic XDP support
> net: lan96x: Use page_pool API
>
> .../net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/Kconfig | 1 +
> .../net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/Makefile | 3 +-
> .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_fdma.c | 181 +++++++++++-------
> .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_ifh.h | 1 +
> .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.c | 7 +-
> .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_main.h | 33 ++++
> .../ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_xdp.c | 76 ++++++++
> 7 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan966x/lan966x_xdp.c
>
> --
> 2.38.0

Thanks,
Olek