Re: [PATCH intel-next 0/5] i40e: support XDP multi-buffer

[Alexander H Duyck]

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 16:20 +0530, Tirthendu Sarkar wrote:
> This patchset adds multi-buffer support for XDP. The first four patches
> are prepatory patches while the fifth one contains actual multi-buffer
> changes. 
> 
> Tirthendu Sarkar (5):
>   i40e: add pre-xdp page_count in rx_buffer
>   i40e: avoid per buffer next_to_clean access from i40e_ring
>   i40e: introduce next_to_process to i40e_ring
>   i40e: pull out rx buffer allocation to end of i40e_clean_rx_irq()
>   i40e: add support for XDP multi-buffer Rx
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c |  18 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 378 ++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h |  13 +-
>  3 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
> 

This approach seems kind of convoluted to me. Basically you are trying
to clean the ring without cleaning the ring in the cases where you
encounter a non EOP descriptor.

Why not just replace the skb pointer with an xdp_buff in the ring? Then
you just build an xdp_buff w/ frags and then convert it after after
i40e_is_non_eop? You should then still be able to use all the same page
counting tricks and the pages would just be dropped into the shared
info of an xdp_buff instead of an skb and function the same assuming
you have all the logic in place to clean them up correctly.