[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH 0/3] XDP for ixgbe

[John Fastabend]

On 17-02-25 09:32 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> This series adds support for XDP on ixgbe. We still need to understand
> adjust head size requirement. If we can compromise at 196B (is this
> correct Alex?) then we can continue to use normal driver RX path and
> avoid having XDP codebase + normal codebase. This is a big win for
> everyone who has to read this code day to day and work on it. I
> suggest if more headroom is needed then it should also be needed in
> the normal stack case and we should provide a generic mechanism to
> build up more headroom. Plus we already have ndo_set_rx_headroom()
> can we just use this?
> 
> If this series can get accepted then we have a series behind it to
> enable batching on TX to push TX Mpps up to line rates. The gist of
> the implementation is to run XDP program in a loop, collecting the
> action results in an array. And then pushing them into the TX routine.
> For a first gen this will likely abort if we get a XDP_PASS routine
> but this is just a matter of code wrangling and lazyness. It can be
> resolved.
> 
> Future looking some improvements are needed, TX routines should take
> an array of packets if we believe long trains of packets will be on
> the RX ring inside a "processing window" (how many descriptors we
> handle per irq clean). Note with many queues on devices we can ensure
> this happens with flow director or even RSS in some cases.
> 
> @Alex, please review. Look at patch 2/3 in paticular and let me know
> what you think about the trade-offs I made there w.r.t. num_xdp_queues
> 
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Hi Jeff,

There might need to be a couple versions to address feedback, but I
assume you can put this on your dev_queue for whenever net-next opens?

Thanks,
John