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author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2018-05-24 18:36:16 -0700 |
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committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2018-05-24 18:36:16 -0700 |
commit | 10f678683e4026e43524b0492068a371d00fdeed (patch) | |
tree | 069715fbcf7b0f4b73103861fd0a111e143b5705 /tools/include/uapi | |
parent | f80acbd233382619f597f785f8c238084dc62e21 (diff) | |
parent | a570e48fee1bc26f47aba2e1493f96a03bed3c8f (diff) | |
download | linux-10f678683e4026e43524b0492068a371d00fdeed.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'xdp_xmit-bulking'
Jesper Dangaard Brouer says:
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This patchset change ndo_xdp_xmit API to take a bulk of xdp frames.
When kernel is compiled with CONFIG_RETPOLINE, every indirect function
pointer (branch) call hurts performance. For XDP this have a huge
negative performance impact.
This patchset reduce the needed (indirect) calls to ndo_xdp_xmit, but
also prepares for further optimizations. The DMA APIs use of indirect
function pointer calls is the primary source the regression. It is
left for a followup patchset, to use bulking calls towards the DMA API
(via the scatter-gatter calls).
The other advantage of this API change is that drivers can easier
amortize the cost of any sync/locking scheme, over the bulk of
packets. The assumption of the current API is that the driver
implemementing the NDO will also allocate a dedicated XDP TX queue for
every CPU in the system. Which is not always possible or practical to
configure. E.g. ixgbe cannot load an XDP program on a machine with
more than 96 CPUs, due to limited hardware TX queues. E.g. virtio_net
is hard to configure as it requires manually increasing the
queues. E.g. tun driver chooses to use a per XDP frame producer lock
modulo smp_processor_id over avail queues.
I'm considered adding 'flags' to ndo_xdp_xmit, but it's not part of
this patchset. This will be a followup patchset, once we know if this
will be needed (e.g. for non-map xdp_redirect flush-flag, and if
AF_XDP chooses to use ndo_xdp_xmit for TX).
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V5: Fixed up issues spotted by Daniel and John
V4: Splitout the patches from 4 to 8 patches. I cannot split the
driver changes from the NDO change, but I've tried to isolated the NDO
change together with the driver change as much as possible.
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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