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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <borkmann@iogearbox•net>,
	"Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead•org>,
	BjörnTöpel <bjorn.topel@intel•com>,
	"Magnus Karlsson" <magnus.karlsson@intel•com>,
	makita.toshiaki@lab•ntt.co.jp, brouer@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [bpf-next V4 PATCH 1/8] bpf: devmap introduce dev_map_enqueue
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:12:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180523131209.553a9089@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cb01875-6044-540a-e1f8-0cafd9587ee8@iogearbox.net>


On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:34:22 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net> wrote:

> > +int dev_map_enqueue(struct bpf_dtab_netdev *dst, struct xdp_buff *xdp)
> > +{
> > +	struct net_device *dev = dst->dev;
> > +	struct xdp_frame *xdpf;
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	if (!dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit)
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > +	xdpf = convert_to_xdp_frame(xdp);
> > +	if (unlikely(!xdpf))
> > +		return -EOVERFLOW;
> > +
> > +	/* TODO: implement a bulking/enqueue step later */
> > +	err = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit(dev, xdpf);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	return 0;  
> 
> The 'err' is just unnecessary, lets just do:
> 
>   return dev->netdev_ops->ndo_xdp_xmit(dev, xdpf);
> 
> Later after the other patches this becomes:
> 
>   return bq_enqueue(dst, xdpf, dev_rx);

I agree, I'll fix this up in V5.

After this patchset gets applied, there are also other opportunities to
do similar micro-optimizations.  I have a branch (on top of this
patchset) which does such micro-optimizations (including this) plus
I've looked at the resulting asm-code layout.  But my benchmarks only
show a 2 nanosec improvement for all these micro-optimizations (where
the focus is to reduce the asm-code I-cache size of xdp_do_redirect).

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-23 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-18 13:34 [bpf-next V4 PATCH 0/8] xdp: introduce bulking for ndo_xdp_xmit API Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:34 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 1/8] bpf: devmap introduce dev_map_enqueue Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23  9:34   ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-05-23 11:12     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2018-05-18 13:34 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 2/8] bpf: devmap prepare xdp frames for bulking Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23  9:54   ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-05-23 10:29     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23 10:45       ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-05-23 10:38     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:34 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 3/8] xdp: add tracepoint for devmap like cpumap have Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23 14:24   ` John Fastabend
2018-05-23 15:04     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:34 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 4/8] samples/bpf: xdp_monitor use tracepoint xdp:xdp_devmap_xmit Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:34 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 5/8] xdp: introduce xdp_return_frame_rx_napi Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 20:46   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:35 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 6/8] xdp: change ndo_xdp_xmit API to support bulking Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23 14:42   ` John Fastabend
2018-05-23 15:27     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:35 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 7/8] xdp/trace: extend tracepoint in devmap with an err Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 20:49   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 13:35 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 8/8] samples/bpf: xdp_monitor use err code from tracepoint xdp:xdp_devmap_xmit Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-18 20:48   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-05-23  9:24 ` [bpf-next V4 PATCH 0/8] xdp: introduce bulking for ndo_xdp_xmit API Daniel Borkmann

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