Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 2/2] net: xdp: introduce xdp_prepare_buff utility routine

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:52:40 +0100

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:47:10 +0100
Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]> wrote:

> [...]
> > >  	xdp_act = bpf_prog_run_xdp(xdp_prog, &xdp);
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> > > index 4dbbbd49c389..fcd1ca3343fb 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
> > > @@ -2393,12 +2393,12 @@ static int i40e_clean_rx_irq(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, int budget)
> > >  
> > >  		/* retrieve a buffer from the ring */
> > >  		if (!skb) {
> > > -			xdp.data = page_address(rx_buffer->page) +
> > > -				   rx_buffer->page_offset;
> > > -			xdp.data_meta = xdp.data;
> > > -			xdp.data_hard_start = xdp.data -
> > > -					      i40e_rx_offset(rx_ring);
> > > -			xdp.data_end = xdp.data + size;
> > > +			unsigned int offset = i40e_rx_offset(rx_ring);  
> > 
> > I now see that we could call the i40e_rx_offset() once per napi, so can
> > you pull this variable out and have it initialized a single time? Applies
> > to other intel drivers as well.  
>
> ack, fine. I will fix in v4.

Be careful with the Intel drivers.  They have two modes (at compile
time) depending on PAGE_SIZE in system.  In one of the modes (default
one) you can place init of xdp.frame_sz outside the NAPI loop and init a
single time.  In the other mode you cannot, and it becomes dynamic per
packet.  Intel review this carefully, please!

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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