[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH RFC net-next 00/34] Christmas 3-serie XDP for idpf (+generic stuff)
Willem de Bruijn
willemdebruijn.kernel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 20:23:41 UTC 2023
Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> I was highly asked to send this WIP before the holidays to trigger
> some discussions at least for the generic parts.
>
> This all depends on libie[0] and WB-on-ITR fix[1]. The RFC does not
> guarantee to work perfectly, but at least regular XDP seems to work
> for me...
>
> In fact, here are 3 separate series:
> * 01-08: convert idpf to libie and make it more sane;
> * 09-25: add XDP to idpf;
> * 26-34: add XSk to idpf.
>
> Most people may want to be interested only in the following generic
> changes:
> * 11: allow attaching already registered memory models to XDP RxQ info;
> * 12-13: generic helpers for adding a frag to &xdp_buff and converting
> it to an skb;
> * 14: get rid of xdp_frame::mem.id, allow mixing pages from different
> page_pools within one &xdp_buff/&xdp_frame;
> * 15: some Page Pool helper;
> * 18: it's for libie, but I wanted to talk about XDP_TX bulking;
> * 26: same as 13, but for converting XSK &xdp_buff to skb.
>
> The rest is up to you, driver-specific stuff is pretty boring sometimes.
>
> I'll be polishing and finishing this all starting January 3rd and then
> preparing and sending sane series, some early feedback never hurts tho.
>
> Merry Yule!
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231213112835.2262651-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231215193721.425087-1-michal.kubiak@intel.com
This is great. Thanks for sharing the entire series.
Which SHA1 should we apply this to? I'm having a hard time applying
cleanly.
The libie v7 series applied cleanly on bc044ae9d64b. Which I chose
only based on the follow-on page pool patch.
But that base commit causes too many conflicts when applying this.
Patch 6 had a trivial one in idpf_rx_singleq_clean (`skb = rx_q->skb`).
But patch 14 has so many conflicts in page_pool.c, that I'm clearly
on the wrong track trying to fix up manually.
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