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Alexei Starovoitov 10f678683e 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>
2018-05-24 18:36:16 -07:00
arch bpf: powerpc64: add JIT support for multi-function programs 2018-05-24 09:20:49 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
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Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-05-16 22:47:11 -04:00
drivers xdp: change ndo_xdp_xmit API to support bulking 2018-05-24 18:36:15 -07:00
firmware
fs vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes 2018-05-14 13:46:04 -04:00
include xdp/trace: extend tracepoint in devmap with an err 2018-05-24 18:36:15 -07:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-05-16 22:47:11 -04:00
ipc
kernel xdp/trace: extend tracepoint in devmap with an err 2018-05-24 18:36:15 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-05-07 23:35:08 -04:00
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mm mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits 2018-05-11 09:52:01 -07:00
net xdp: change ndo_xdp_xmit API to support bulking 2018-05-24 18:36:15 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: xdp_monitor use err code from tracepoint xdp:xdp_devmap_xmit 2018-05-24 18:36:15 -07:00
scripts bpf: change eBPF helper doc parsing script to allow for smaller indent 2018-05-17 17:34:43 +02:00
security net: initial AF_XDP skeleton 2018-05-03 15:55:23 -07:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl 2018-05-02 08:54:54 +02:00
tools tools/bpftool: add perf subcommand 2018-05-24 18:18:20 -07:00
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