net: enetc: add support for XDP_TX
For reflecting packets back into the interface they came from, we create an array of TX software BDs derived from the RX software BDs. Therefore, we need to extend the TX software BD structure to contain most of the stuff that's already present in the RX software BD structure, for reasons that will become evident in a moment. For a frame with the XDP_TX verdict, we don't reuse any buffer right away as we do for XDP_DROP (the same page half) or XDP_PASS (the other page half, same as the skb code path). Because the buffer transfers ownership from the RX ring to the TX ring, reusing any page half right away is very dangerous. So what we can do is we can recycle the same page half as soon as TX is complete. The code path is: enetc_poll -> enetc_clean_rx_ring_xdp -> enetc_xdp_tx -> enetc_refill_rx_ring (time passes, another MSI interrupt is raised) enetc_poll -> enetc_clean_tx_ring -> enetc_recycle_xdp_tx_buff But that creates a problem, because there is a potentially large time window between enetc_xdp_tx and enetc_recycle_xdp_tx_buff, period in which we'll have less and less RX buffers. Basically, when the ship starts sinking, the knee-jerk reaction is to let enetc_refill_rx_ring do what it does for the standard skb code path (refill every 16 consumed buffers), but that turns out to be very inefficient. The problem is that we have no rx_swbd->page at our disposal from the enetc_reuse_page path, so enetc_refill_rx_ring would have to call enetc_new_page for every buffer that we refill (if we choose to refill at this early stage). Very inefficient, it only makes the problem worse, because page allocation is an expensive process, and CPU time is exactly what we're lacking. Additionally, there is an even bigger problem: if we let enetc_refill_rx_ring top up the ring's buffers again from the RX path, remember that the buffers sent to transmission haven't disappeared anywhere. They will be eventually sent, and processed in enetc_clean_tx_ring, and an attempt will be made to recycle them. But surprise, the RX ring is already full of new buffers, because we were premature in deciding that we should refill. So not only we took the expensive decision of allocating new pages, but now we must throw away perfectly good and reusable buffers. So what we do is we implement an elastic refill mechanism, which keeps track of the number of in-flight XDP_TX buffer descriptors. We top up the RX ring only up to the total ring capacity minus the number of BDs that are in flight (because we know that those BDs will return to us eventually). The enetc driver manages 1 RX ring per CPU, and the default TX ring management is the same. So we do XDP_TX towards the TX ring of the same index, because it is affined to the same CPU. This will probably not produce great results when we have a tc-taprio/tc-mqprio qdisc on the interface, because in that case, the number of TX rings might be greater, but I didn't add any checks for that yet (mostly because I didn't know what checks to add). It should also be noted that we need to change the DMA mapping direction for RX buffers, since they may now be reflected into the TX ring of the same device. We choose to use DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL instead of unmapping and remapping as DMA_TO_DEVICE, because performance is better this way. Signed-off-by:Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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