2024-02-29 11:09:34

by Paolo Abeni

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] vhost_net: Call peek_len when using xdp

On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 19:05 +0800, Yunjian Wang wrote:
> If TUN supports AF_XDP TX zero-copy, the XDP program will enqueue
> packets to the XDP ring and wake up the vhost worker. This requires
> the vhost worker to call peek_len(), which can be used to consume
> XDP descriptors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/vhost/net.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index f2ed7167c848..077e74421558 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ static int vhost_net_buf_peek_len(void *ptr)
> return __skb_array_len_with_tag(ptr);
> }
>
> +static bool vhost_sock_xdp(struct socket *sock)
> +{
> + return sock_flag(sock->sk, SOCK_XDP);
> +}
> +
> static int vhost_net_buf_peek(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq)
> {
> struct vhost_net_buf *rxq = &nvq->rxq;
> @@ -214,6 +219,13 @@ static int vhost_net_buf_peek(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq)
> if (!vhost_net_buf_is_empty(rxq))
> goto out;
>
> + if (ptr_ring_empty(nvq->rx_ring)) {
> + struct socket *sock = vhost_vq_get_backend(&nvq->vq);
> + /* Call peek_len to consume XSK descriptors, when using xdp */
> + if (vhost_sock_xdp(sock) && sock->ops->peek_len)
> + sock->ops->peek_len(sock);

This really looks like a socket API misuse. Why can't you use ptr-ring
primitives to consume XSK descriptors? peek_len could be constified
some day, this code will prevent such (good) thing.

Cheers,

Paolo



2024-02-29 13:18:00

by wangyunjian

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Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] vhost_net: Call peek_len when using xdp



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Abeni [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 29, 2024 6:49 PM
> To: wangyunjian <[email protected]>; [email protected];
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> [email protected]; xudingke <[email protected]>; liwei (DT)
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/3] vhost_net: Call peek_len when using xdp
>
> On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 19:05 +0800, Yunjian Wang wrote:
> > If TUN supports AF_XDP TX zero-copy, the XDP program will enqueue
> > packets to the XDP ring and wake up the vhost worker. This requires
> > the vhost worker to call peek_len(), which can be used to consume XDP
> > descriptors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/vhost/net.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index
> > f2ed7167c848..077e74421558 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> > @@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ static int vhost_net_buf_peek_len(void *ptr)
> > return __skb_array_len_with_tag(ptr); }
> >
> > +static bool vhost_sock_xdp(struct socket *sock) {
> > + return sock_flag(sock->sk, SOCK_XDP); }
> > +
> > static int vhost_net_buf_peek(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq) {
> > struct vhost_net_buf *rxq = &nvq->rxq; @@ -214,6 +219,13 @@ static
> > int vhost_net_buf_peek(struct vhost_net_virtqueue *nvq)
> > if (!vhost_net_buf_is_empty(rxq))
> > goto out;
> >
> > + if (ptr_ring_empty(nvq->rx_ring)) {
> > + struct socket *sock = vhost_vq_get_backend(&nvq->vq);
> > + /* Call peek_len to consume XSK descriptors, when using xdp */
> > + if (vhost_sock_xdp(sock) && sock->ops->peek_len)
> > + sock->ops->peek_len(sock);
>
> This really looks like a socket API misuse. Why can't you use ptr-ring primitives
> to consume XSK descriptors? peek_len could be constified some day, this code
> will prevent such (good) thing.

Thank you for your suggestion. I will consider that with Patch 3/3.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Paolo