net/mlx5e: RX, Add XDP multi-buffer support in Striding RQ
authorTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:19:03 +0000 (15:19 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:59:27 +0000 (08:59 +0100)
commitf52ac7028bec22e925c8fece4f21641eb13b4d6f
treedb12c8d32aa34e938ee36de51a3de958ad0e3113
parent2cb0e27d43b4eec70e20103cb09055303f70b6d9
net/mlx5e: RX, Add XDP multi-buffer support in Striding RQ

Here we add support for multi-buffer XDP handling in Striding RQ, which
is our default out-of-the-box RQ type. Before this series, loading such
an XDP program would fail, until you switch to the legacy RQ (by
unsetting the rx_striding_rq priv-flag).

To overcome the lack of headroom and tailroom between the strides, we
allocate a side page to be used for the descriptor (xdp_buff / skb) and
the linear part. When an XDP program is attached, we structure the
xdp_buff so that it contains no data in the linear part, and the whole
packet resides in the fragments.

In case of XDP_PASS, where an SKB still needs to be created, we copy up
to 256 bytes to its linear part, to match the current behavior, and
satisfy functions that assume finding the packet headers in the SKB
linear part (like eth_type_trans).

Performance testing:

Packet rate test, 64 bytes, 32 channels, MTU 9000 bytes.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8380 CPU @ 2.30GHz.
NIC: ConnectX-6 Dx, at 100 Gbps.

+----------+-------------+-------------+---------+
| Test     | Legacy RQ   | Striding RQ | Speedup |
+----------+-------------+-------------+---------+
| XDP_DROP | 101,615,544 | 117,191,020 | +15%    |
+----------+-------------+-------------+---------+
| XDP_TX   |  95,608,169 | 117,043,422 | +22%    |
+----------+-------------+-------------+---------+

Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.h
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c