Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 4/6] xsk: carry a copy of xdp_zc_max_segs within xsk_buff_pool

From: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 13:47:51 +0200

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 08:41:33PM +0100, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
> On 02/10/2024 16:54, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > This so we avoid dereferencing struct net_device within hot path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >   include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h | 1 +
> >   net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c     | 1 +
> >   net/xdp/xsk_queue.h         | 2 +-
> >   3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h b/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
> > index 468a23b1b4c5..8223581d95f8 100644
> > --- a/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
> > +++ b/include/net/xsk_buff_pool.h
> > @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct xsk_buff_pool {
> >   	u32 chunk_shift;
> >   	u32 frame_len;
> >   	u8 tx_metadata_len; /* inherited from umem */
> > +	u32 xdp_zc_max_segs;
> 
> It's better not to make holes in the struct. And looks like it's better
> to move it closer to free_list_cnt to put it on the same cache line with
> tx_descs which is accessed earlier in xskq_cons_read_desc_batch()
> (though the last point is not strict because both cache lines should be
> hot at the moment)

Hi Vadim,

Yeah I agree placement is awkward, i'll move this above tx_metadata_len to
keep booleans together. CL is correct though as ::unaligned is accessed
when parsing/validating descs so as you said, both these CLs are supposed
to be hot.

Thanks for review! Will send a v2.

> >   	u8 cached_need_wakeup;
> >   	bool uses_need_wakeup;
> >   	bool unaligned;