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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2018-07-13 16:34:31 +0300
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2018-07-13 16:35:48 +0300
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Merge branch 'bpf-af-xdp-consistent-err-reporting'
Magnus Karlsson says: ==================== This patch set adjusts the AF_XDP TX error reporting so that it becomes consistent between copy mode and zero-copy. First some background: Copy-mode for TX uses the SKB path in which the action of sending the packet is performed from process context using the sendmsg syscall. Completions are usually done asynchronously from NAPI mode by using a TX interrupt. In this mode, send errors can be returned back through the syscall. In zero-copy mode both the sending of the packet and the completions are done asynchronously from NAPI mode for performance reasons. In this mode, the sendmsg syscall only makes sure that the TX NAPI loop will be run that performs both the actions of sending and completing. In this mode it is therefore not possible to return errors through the sendmsg syscall as the sending is done from the NAPI loop. Note that it is possible to implement a synchronous send with our API, but in our benchmarks that made the TX performance drop by nearly half due to synchronization requirements and cache line bouncing. But for some netdevs this might be preferable so let us leave it up to the implementation to decide. The problem is that the current code base returns some errors in copy-mode that are not possible to return in zero-copy mode. This patch set aligns them so that the two modes always return the same error code. We achieve this by removing some of the errors returned by sendmsg in copy-mode (and in one case adding an error message for zero-copy mode) and offering alternative error detection methods that are consistent between the two modes. The structure of the patch set is as follows: Patch 1: removes the ENXIO return code from copy-mode when someone has forcefully changed the number of queues on the device so that the queue bound to the socket is no longer available. Just silently stop sending anything as in zero-copy mode. Patch 2: stop returning EAGAIN in copy mode when the completion queue is full as zero-copy does not do this. Instead this situation can be detected by comparing the head and tail pointers of the completion queue in both modes. In any case, EAGAIN was not the correct error code here since no amount of calling sendmsg will solve the problem. Only consuming one or more messages on the completion queue will fix this. Patch 3: Always return ENOBUFS from sendmsg if there is no TX queue configured. This was not the case for zero-copy mode. Patch 4: stop returning EMSGSIZE when the size of the packet is larger than the MTU. Just send it to the device so that it will drop it as in zero-copy mode. Note that copy-mode can still return EAGAIN in certain circumstances, but as these conditions cannot occur in zero-copy mode it is fine for copy-mode to return them. ==================== Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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