Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] xsk: use a smaller new lock for shared pool case

From: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:53:10 +0800

From: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>

- Split cq_lock into two smaller locks: cq_prod_lock and
  cq_cached_prod_lock
- Avoid disabling/enabling interrupts in the hot xmit path

In either xsk_cq_cancel_locked() or xsk_cq_reserve_locked() function,
the race condition is only between multiple xsks sharing the same
pool. They are all in the process context rather than interrupt context,
so now the small lock named cq_cached_prod_lock can be used without
handling interrupts.

While cq_cached_prod_lock ensures the exclusive modification of
@cached_prod, cq_prod_lock in xsk_cq_submit_addr_locked() only cares
about @producer and corresponding @desc. Both of them don't necessarily
be consistent with @cached_prod protected by cq_cached_prod_lock.
That's the reason why the previous big lock can be split into two
smaller ones.

Frequently disabling and enabling interrupt are very time consuming
in some cases, especially in a per-descriptor granularity, which now
can be avoided after this optimization, even when the pool is shared by
multiple xsks.

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
---
 include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h | 13 +++++++++----
 net/xdp/xsk.c               | 14 ++++++--------
 net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c     |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h b/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
index cac56e6b0869..92a2358c6ce3 100644
--- a/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
+++ b/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
@@ -85,11 +85,16 @@ struct xsk_buff_pool {
 	bool unaligned;
 	bool tx_sw_csum;
 	void *addrs;
-	/* Mutual exclusion of the completion ring in the SKB mode. Two cases to protect:
-	 * NAPI TX thread and sendmsg error paths in the SKB destructor callback and when
-	 * sockets share a single cq when the same netdev and queue id is shared.
+	/* Mutual exclusion of the completion ring in the SKB mode.
+	 * Protect: NAPI TX thread and sendmsg error paths in the SKB
+	 * destructor callback.
 	 */
-	spinlock_t cq_lock;
+	spinlock_t cq_prod_lock;
+	/* Mutual exclusion of the completion ring in the SKB mode.
+	 * Protect: when sockets share a single cq when the same netdev
+	 * and queue id is shared.
+	 */
+	spinlock_t cq_cached_prod_lock;
 	struct xdp_buff_xsk *free_heads[];
 };
 
diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c
index 76f797fcc49c..d254817b8a53 100644
--- a/net/xdp/xsk.c
+++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c
@@ -549,14 +549,13 @@ static int xsk_wakeup(struct xdp_sock *xs, u8 flags)
 static int xsk_cq_reserve_locked(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool)
 {
 	bool lock = !list_is_singular(&pool->xsk_tx_list);
-	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (lock)
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+		spin_lock(&pool->cq_cached_prod_lock);
 	ret = xskq_prod_reserve(pool->cq);
 	if (lock)
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+		spin_unlock(&pool->cq_cached_prod_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -569,7 +568,7 @@ static void xsk_cq_submit_addr_locked(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 idx;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->cq_prod_lock, flags);
 	idx = xskq_get_prod(pool->cq);
 
 	xskq_prod_write_addr(pool->cq, idx,
@@ -586,19 +585,18 @@ static void xsk_cq_submit_addr_locked(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool,
 		}
 	}
 	xskq_prod_submit_n(pool->cq, descs_processed);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->cq_prod_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void xsk_cq_cancel_locked(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool, u32 n)
 {
 	bool lock = !list_is_singular(&pool->xsk_tx_list);
-	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (lock)
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+		spin_lock(&pool->cq_cached_prod_lock);
 	xskq_prod_cancel_n(pool->cq, n);
 	if (lock)
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->cq_lock, flags);
+		spin_unlock(&pool->cq_cached_prod_lock);
 }
 
 static void xsk_inc_num_desc(struct sk_buff *skb)
diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
index aa9788f20d0d..add44bd09cae 100644
--- a/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
+++ b/net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ struct xsk_buff_pool *xp_create_and_assign_umem(struct xdp_sock *xs,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->xskb_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->xsk_tx_list);
 	spin_lock_init(&pool->xsk_tx_list_lock);
-	spin_lock_init(&pool->cq_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&pool->cq_prod_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&pool->cq_cached_prod_lock);
 	refcount_set(&pool->users, 1);
 
 	pool->fq = xs->fq_tmp;
-- 
2.41.3