samples/bpf: sample application and documentation for AF_XDP sockets

This is a sample application for AF_XDP sockets. The application
supports three different modes of operation: rxdrop, txonly and l2fwd.

To show-case a simple round-robin load-balancing between a set of
sockets in an xskmap, set the RR_LB compile time define option to 1 in
"xdpsock.h".

v2: The entries variable was calculated twice in {umem,xq}_nb_avail.

Co-authored-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+======
+AF_XDP
+======
+
+Overview
+========
+
+AF_XDP is an address family that is optimized for high performance
+packet processing.
+
+This document assumes that the reader is familiar with BPF and XDP. If
+not, the Cilium project has an excellent reference guide at
+http://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/doc-1.0/bpf/.
+
+Using the XDP_REDIRECT action from an XDP program, the program can
+redirect ingress frames to other XDP enabled netdevs, using the
+bpf_redirect_map() function. AF_XDP sockets enable the possibility for
+XDP programs to redirect frames to a memory buffer in a user-space
+application.
+
+An AF_XDP socket (XSK) is created with the normal socket()
+syscall. Associated with each XSK are two rings: the RX ring and the
+TX ring. A socket can receive packets on the RX ring and it can send
+packets on the TX ring. These rings are registered and sized with the
+setsockopts XDP_RX_RING and XDP_TX_RING, respectively. It is mandatory
+to have at least one of these rings for each socket. An RX or TX
+descriptor ring points to a data buffer in a memory area called a
+UMEM. RX and TX can share the same UMEM so that a packet does not have
+to be copied between RX and TX. Moreover, if a packet needs to be kept
+for a while due to a possible retransmit, the descriptor that points
+to that packet can be changed to point to another and reused right
+away. This again avoids copying data.
+
+The UMEM consists of a number of equally size frames and each frame
+has a unique frame id. A descriptor in one of the rings references a
+frame by referencing its frame id. The user space allocates memory for
+this UMEM using whatever means it feels is most appropriate (malloc,
+mmap, huge pages, etc). This memory area is then registered with the
+kernel using the new setsockopt XDP_UMEM_REG. The UMEM also has two
+rings: the FILL ring and the COMPLETION ring. The fill ring is used by
+the application to send down frame ids for the kernel to fill in with
+RX packet data. References to these frames will then appear in the RX
+ring once each packet has been received. The completion ring, on the
+other hand, contains frame ids that the kernel has transmitted
+completely and can now be used again by user space, for either TX or
+RX. Thus, the frame ids appearing in the completion ring are ids that
+were previously transmitted using the TX ring. In summary, the RX and
+FILL rings are used for the RX path and the TX and COMPLETION rings
+are used for the TX path.
+
+The socket is then finally bound with a bind() call to a device and a
+specific queue id on that device, and it is not until bind is
+completed that traffic starts to flow.
+
+The UMEM can be shared between processes, if desired. If a process
+wants to do this, it simply skips the registration of the UMEM and its
+corresponding two rings, sets the XDP_SHARED_UMEM flag in the bind
+call and submits the XSK of the process it would like to share UMEM
+with as well as its own newly created XSK socket. The new process will
+then receive frame id references in its own RX ring that point to this
+shared UMEM. Note that since the ring structures are single-consumer /
+single-producer (for performance reasons), the new process has to
+create its own socket with associated RX and TX rings, since it cannot
+share this with the other process. This is also the reason that there
+is only one set of FILL and COMPLETION rings per UMEM. It is the
+responsibility of a single process to handle the UMEM.
+
+How is then packets distributed from an XDP program to the XSKs? There
+is a BPF map called XSKMAP (or BPF_MAP_TYPE_XSKMAP in full). The
+user-space application can place an XSK at an arbitrary place in this
+map. The XDP program can then redirect a packet to a specific index in
+this map and at this point XDP validates that the XSK in that map was
+indeed bound to that device and ring number. If not, the packet is
+dropped. If the map is empty at that index, the packet is also
+dropped. This also means that it is currently mandatory to have an XDP
+program loaded (and one XSK in the XSKMAP) to be able to get any
+traffic to user space through the XSK.
+
+AF_XDP can operate in two different modes: XDP_SKB and XDP_DRV. If the
+driver does not have support for XDP, or XDP_SKB is explicitly chosen
+when loading the XDP program, XDP_SKB mode is employed that uses SKBs
+together with the generic XDP support and copies out the data to user
+space. A fallback mode that works for any network device. On the other
+hand, if the driver has support for XDP, it will be used by the AF_XDP
+code to provide better performance, but there is still a copy of the
+data into user space.
+
+Concepts
+========
+
+In order to use an AF_XDP socket, a number of associated objects need
+to be setup.
+
+Jonathan Corbet has also written an excellent article on LWN,
+"Accelerating networking with AF_XDP". It can be found at
+https://lwn.net/Articles/750845/.
+
+UMEM
+----
+
+UMEM is a region of virtual contiguous memory, divided into
+equal-sized frames. An UMEM is associated to a netdev and a specific
+queue id of that netdev. It is created and configured (frame size,
+frame headroom, start address and size) by using the XDP_UMEM_REG
+setsockopt system call. A UMEM is bound to a netdev and queue id, via
+the bind() system call.
+
+An AF_XDP is socket linked to a single UMEM, but one UMEM can have
+multiple AF_XDP sockets. To share an UMEM created via one socket A,
+the next socket B can do this by setting the XDP_SHARED_UMEM flag in
+struct sockaddr_xdp member sxdp_flags, and passing the file descriptor
+of A to struct sockaddr_xdp member sxdp_shared_umem_fd.
+
+The UMEM has two single-producer/single-consumer rings, that are used
+to transfer ownership of UMEM frames between the kernel and the
+user-space application.
+
+Rings
+-----
+
+There are a four different kind of rings: Fill, Completion, RX and
+TX. All rings are single-producer/single-consumer, so the user-space
+application need explicit synchronization of multiple
+processes/threads are reading/writing to them.
+
+The UMEM uses two rings: Fill and Completion. Each socket associated
+with the UMEM must have an RX queue, TX queue or both. Say, that there
+is a setup with four sockets (all doing TX and RX). Then there will be
+one Fill ring, one Completion ring, four TX rings and four RX rings.
+
+The rings are head(producer)/tail(consumer) based rings. A producer
+writes the data ring at the index pointed out by struct xdp_ring
+producer member, and increasing the producer index. A consumer reads
+the data ring at the index pointed out by struct xdp_ring consumer
+member, and increasing the consumer index.
+
+The rings are configured and created via the _RING setsockopt system
+calls and mmapped to user-space using the appropriate offset to mmap()
+(XDP_PGOFF_RX_RING, XDP_PGOFF_TX_RING, XDP_UMEM_PGOFF_FILL_RING and
+XDP_UMEM_PGOFF_COMPLETION_RING).
+
+The size of the rings need to be of size power of two.
+
+UMEM Fill Ring
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Fill ring is used to transfer ownership of UMEM frames from
+user-space to kernel-space. The UMEM indicies are passed in the
+ring. As an example, if the UMEM is 64k and each frame is 4k, then the
+UMEM has 16 frames and can pass indicies between 0 and 15.
+
+Frames passed to the kernel are used for the ingress path (RX rings).
+
+The user application produces UMEM indicies to this ring.
+
+UMEM Completetion Ring
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The Completion Ring is used transfer ownership of UMEM frames from
+kernel-space to user-space. Just like the Fill ring, UMEM indicies are
+used.
+
+Frames passed from the kernel to user-space are frames that has been
+sent (TX ring) and can be used by user-space again.
+
+The user application consumes UMEM indicies from this ring.
+
+
+RX Ring
+~~~~~~~
+
+The RX ring is the receiving side of a socket. Each entry in the ring
+is a struct xdp_desc descriptor. The descriptor contains UMEM index
+(idx), the length of the data (len), the offset into the frame
+(offset).
+
+If no frames have been passed to kernel via the Fill ring, no
+descriptors will (or can) appear on the RX ring.
+
+The user application consumes struct xdp_desc descriptors from this
+ring.
+
+TX Ring
+~~~~~~~
+
+The TX ring is used to send frames. The struct xdp_desc descriptor is
+filled (index, length and offset) and passed into the ring.
+
+To start the transfer a sendmsg() system call is required. This might
+be relaxed in the future.
+
+The user application produces struct xdp_desc descriptors to this
+ring.
+
+XSKMAP / BPF_MAP_TYPE_XSKMAP
+----------------------------
+
+On XDP side there is a BPF map type BPF_MAP_TYPE_XSKMAP (XSKMAP) that
+is used in conjunction with bpf_redirect_map() to pass the ingress
+frame to a socket.
+
+The user application inserts the socket into the map, via the bpf()
+system call.
+
+Note that if an XDP program tries to redirect to a socket that does
+not match the queue configuration and netdev, the frame will be
+dropped. E.g. an AF_XDP socket is bound to netdev eth0 and
+queue 17. Only the XDP program executing for eth0 and queue 17 will
+successfully pass data to the socket. Please refer to the sample
+application (samples/bpf/) in for an example.
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+In order to use AF_XDP sockets there are two parts needed. The
+user-space application and the XDP program. For a complete setup and
+usage example, please refer to the sample application. The user-space
+side is xdpsock_user.c and the XDP side xdpsock_kern.c.
+
+Naive ring dequeue and enqueue could look like this::
+
+    // typedef struct xdp_rxtx_ring RING;
+    // typedef struct xdp_umem_ring RING;
+
+    // typedef struct xdp_desc RING_TYPE;
+    // typedef __u32 RING_TYPE;
+
+    int dequeue_one(RING *ring, RING_TYPE *item)
+    {
+        __u32 entries = ring->ptrs.producer - ring->ptrs.consumer;
+
+        if (entries == 0)
+            return -1;
+
+        // read-barrier!
+
+        *item = ring->desc[ring->ptrs.consumer & (RING_SIZE - 1)];
+        ring->ptrs.consumer++;
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    int enqueue_one(RING *ring, const RING_TYPE *item)
+    {
+        u32 free_entries = RING_SIZE - (ring->ptrs.producer - ring->ptrs.consumer);
+
+        if (free_entries == 0)
+            return -1;
+
+        ring->desc[ring->ptrs.producer & (RING_SIZE - 1)] = *item;
+
+        // write-barrier!
+
+        ring->ptrs.producer++;
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+
+For a more optimized version, please refer to the sample application.
+
+Sample application
+==================
+
+There is a xdpsock benchmarking/test application included that
+demonstrates how to use AF_XDP sockets with both private and shared
+UMEMs. Say that you would like your UDP traffic from port 4242 to end
+up in queue 16, that we will enable AF_XDP on. Here, we use ethtool
+for this::
+
+      ethtool -N p3p2 rx-flow-hash udp4 fn
+      ethtool -N p3p2 flow-type udp4 src-port 4242 dst-port 4242 \
+          action 16
+
+Running the rxdrop benchmark in XDP_DRV mode can then be done
+using::
+
+      samples/bpf/xdpsock -i p3p2 -q 16 -r -N
+
+For XDP_SKB mode, use the switch "-S" instead of "-N" and all options
+can be displayed with "-h", as usual.
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+- Björn Töpel (AF_XDP core)
+- Magnus Karlsson (AF_XDP core)
+- Alexander Duyck
+- Alexei Starovoitov
+- Daniel Borkmann
+- Jesper Dangaard Brouer
+- John Fastabend
+- Jonathan Corbet (LWN coverage)
+- Michael S. Tsirkin
+- Qi Z Zhang
+- Willem de Bruijn
+
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
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 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   af_xdp
    batman-adv
    can
    dpaa2/index