Re: [RFC net-next v4 3/9] net: napi: Make gro_flush_timeout per-NAPI

From: Joe Damato
Date: Tue Oct 08 2024 - 14:23:01 EST


On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:52:34PM +0000, Joe Damato wrote:

[...]

> Note that idpf has embedded napi_struct in its internals and has
> established some series of asserts that involve the size of napi
> structure. Since this change increases the napi_struct size from 400 to
> 416 (according to pahole on my system), I've increased the assertion in
> idpf by 16 bytes. No attention whatsoever was paid to the cacheline
> placement of idpf internals as a result of this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../networking/net_cachelines/net_device.rst | 2 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +-
> net/core/dev.c | 12 +++---
> net/core/dev.h | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
> net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
> index f0537826f840..fcdf73486d46 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h
> @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ struct idpf_q_vector {
> __cacheline_group_end_aligned(cold);
> };
> libeth_cacheline_set_assert(struct idpf_q_vector, 112,
> - 424 + 2 * sizeof(struct dim),
> + 440 + 2 * sizeof(struct dim),
> 8 + sizeof(cpumask_var_t));
>
> struct idpf_rx_queue_stats {

Now that idpf was fixed separately [1], this will be removed in the
v5.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241004105407.73585-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx/