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authorWilliam Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>2023-08-09 21:13:04 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2023-08-14 08:03:52 +0100
commit54f00cce11786742bd11e5e68c3bf85e6dc048c9 (patch)
tree4ed4c9de57b6f92636d75dc0f3a56cf4b8ee490b /drivers/net/Kconfig
parent76fa36355817705649563f80285ba22b06e456e3 (diff)
downloadlinux-54f00cce11786742bd11e5e68c3bf85e6dc048c9.tar.gz
vmxnet3: Add XDP support.
The patch adds native-mode XDP support: XDP DROP, PASS, TX, and REDIRECT. Background: The vmxnet3 rx consists of three rings: ring0, ring1, and dataring. For r0 and r1, buffers at r0 are allocated using alloc_skb APIs and dma mapped to the ring's descriptor. If LRO is enabled and packet size larger than 3K, VMXNET3_MAX_SKB_BUF_SIZE, then r1 is used to mapped the rest of the buffer larger than VMXNET3_MAX_SKB_BUF_SIZE. Each buffer in r1 is allocated using alloc_page. So for LRO packets, the payload will be in one buffer from r0 and multiple from r1, for non-LRO packets, only one descriptor in r0 is used for packet size less than 3k. When receiving a packet, the first descriptor will have the sop (start of packet) bit set, and the last descriptor will have the eop (end of packet) bit set. Non-LRO packets will have only one descriptor with both sop and eop set. Other than r0 and r1, vmxnet3 dataring is specifically designed for handling packets with small size, usually 128 bytes, defined in VMXNET3_DEF_RXDATA_DESC_SIZE, by simply copying the packet from the backend driver in ESXi to the ring's memory region at front-end vmxnet3 driver, in order to avoid memory mapping/unmapping overhead. In summary, packet size: A. < 128B: use dataring B. 128B - 3K: use ring0 (VMXNET3_RX_BUF_SKB) C. > 3K: use ring0 and ring1 (VMXNET3_RX_BUF_SKB + VMXNET3_RX_BUF_PAGE) As a result, the patch adds XDP support for packets using dataring and r0 (case A and B), not the large packet size when LRO is enabled. XDP Implementation: When user loads and XDP prog, vmxnet3 driver checks configurations, such as mtu, lro, and re-allocate the rx buffer size for reserving the extra headroom, XDP_PACKET_HEADROOM, for XDP frame. The XDP prog will then be associated with every rx queue of the device. Note that when using dataring for small packet size, vmxnet3 (front-end driver) doesn't control the buffer allocation, as a result we allocate a new page and copy packet from the dataring to XDP frame. The receive side of XDP is implemented for case A and B, by invoking the bpf program at vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete and handle its returned action. The vmxnet3_process_xdp(), vmxnet3_process_xdp_small() function handles the ring0 and dataring case separately, and decides the next journey of the packet afterward. For TX, vmxnet3 has split header design. Outgoing packets are parsed first and protocol headers (L2/L3/L4) are copied to the backend. The rest of the payload are dma mapped. Since XDP_TX does not parse the packet protocol, the entire XDP frame is dma mapped for transmission and transmitted in a batch. Later on, the frame is freed and recycled back to the memory pool. Performance: Tested using two VMs inside one ESXi vSphere 7.0 machine, using single core on each vmxnet3 device, sender using DPDK testpmd tx-mode attached to vmxnet3 device, sending 64B or 512B UDP packet. VM1 txgen: $ dpdk-testpmd -l 0-3 -n 1 -- -i --nb-cores=3 \ --forward-mode=txonly --eth-peer=0,<mac addr of vm2> option: add "--txonly-multi-flow" option: use --txpkts=512 or 64 byte VM2 running XDP: $ ./samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info -d ens160 -a <options> --skb-mode $ ./samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info -d ens160 -a <options> options: XDP_DROP, XDP_PASS, XDP_TX To test REDIRECT to cpu 0, use $ ./samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu -d ens160 -c 0 -e drop Single core performance comparison with skb-mode. 64B: skb-mode -> native-mode XDP_DROP: 1.6Mpps -> 2.4Mpps XDP_PASS: 338Kpps -> 367Kpps XDP_TX: 1.1Mpps -> 2.3Mpps REDIRECT-drop: 1.3Mpps -> 2.3Mpps 512B: skb-mode -> native-mode XDP_DROP: 863Kpps -> 1.3Mpps XDP_PASS: 275Kpps -> 376Kpps XDP_TX: 554Kpps -> 1.2Mpps REDIRECT-drop: 659Kpps -> 1.2Mpps Demo: https://youtu.be/4lm1CSCi78Q Future work: - XDP frag support - use napi_consume_skb() instead of dev_kfree_skb_any at unmap - stats using u64_stats_t - using bitfield macro BIT() - optimization for DMA synchronization using actual frame length, instead of always max_len Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 4953c14947234c..be43cd08027b5f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ config VMXNET3
tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
depends on PCI && INET
depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
+ select PAGE_POOL
help
This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the