Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/6] ice: post-mbuf fixes

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 06:06:12PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> The set grew from the poor performance of %BPF_F_TEST_XDP_LIVE_FRAMES
> when the ice-backed device is a sender. Initially there were around
> 3.3 Mpps / thread, while I have 5.5 on skb-based pktgen...
> 
> After fixing 0005 (0004 is a prereq for it) first (strange thing nobody
> noticed that earlier), I started catching random OOMs. This is how 0002
> (and partially 0001) appeared.
> 0003 is a suggestion from Maciej to not waste time on refactoring dead
> lines. 0006 is a "cherry on top" to get away with the final 6.7 Mpps.
> 4.5 of 6 are fixes, but only the first three are tagged, since it then
> starts being tricky. I may backport them manually later on.
> 
> TL;DR for the series is that shortcuts are good, but only as long as
> they don't make the driver miss important things. %XDP_TX is purely
> driver-local, however .ndo_xdp_xmit() is not, and sometimes assumptions
> can be unsafe there.
> 
> With that series and also one core code patch[0], "live frames" and
> xdp-trafficgen are now safe'n'fast on ice (probably more to come).
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230209172827.874728-1-alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Goes to directly to bpf-next as touches the recently added/changed code.

For the series:
Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@xxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Alexander Lobakin (6):
>   ice: fix ice_tx_ring::xdp_tx_active underflow
>   ice: fix XDP Tx ring overrun
>   ice: remove two impossible branches on XDP Tx cleaning
>   ice: robustify cleaning/completing XDP Tx buffers
>   ice: fix freeing XDP frames backed by Page Pool
>   ice: micro-optimize .ndo_xdp_xmit() path
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.c     | 67 +++++++++-----
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx.h     | 37 ++++++--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.c | 88 ++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_txrx_lib.h |  4 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_xsk.c      | 12 +--
>  5 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.39.1
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