[PATCH net-next v5 0/4] virtio-net: Link queues to NAPIs

From: Joe Damato
Date: Thu Feb 27 2025 - 13:51:40 EST


Greetings:

Welcome to v5. Patches 1, 2, and 4 have no functional changes only
updated tags. Patch 3 was refactored as requested by Jason. See the
changelog below and the commit message for details.

Jakub recently commented [1] that I should not hold this series on
virtio-net linking queues to NAPIs behind other important work that is
on-going and suggested I re-spin, so here we are :)

As per the discussion on the v3 [2], now both RX and TX NAPIs use the
API to link queues to NAPIs. Since TX-only NAPIs don't have a NAPI ID,
commit 6597e8d35851 ("netdev-genl: Elide napi_id when not present") now
correctly elides the TX-only NAPIs (instead of printing zero) when the
queues and NAPIs are linked.

As per the discussion on the v4 [3], patch 3 has been refactored to hold
RTNL only in the specific locations which need it as Jason requested.

See the commit message of patch 3 for an example of how to get the NAPI
to queue mapping information.

See the commit message of patch 4 for an example of how NAPI IDs are
persistent despite queue count changes.

Thanks,
Joe

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250221142650.3c74dcac@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250127142400.24eca319@xxxxxxxxxx/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CACGkMEv=ejJnOWDnAu7eULLvrqXjkMkTL4cbi-uCTUhCpKN_GA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v5:
- Patch 1 added Acked-by's from Michael and Jason. Added Tested-by
from Lei. No functional changes.
- Patch 2 added Acked-by's from Michael and Jason. Added Tested-by
from Lei. No functional changes.
- Patch 3:
- Refactored as Jason requested, eliminating the
virtnet_queue_set_napi helper entirely, and explicitly holding
RTNL in the 3 locations where needed (refill_work, freeze, and
restore).
- Commit message updated to outline the known paths at the time the
commit was written.
- Patch 4 added Acked-by from Michael. Added Tested-by from Lei. No
functional changes.

v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250225020455.212895-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Dropped Jakub's patch (previously patch 1).
- Significant refactor from v3 affecting patches 1-3.
- Patch 4 added tags from Jason and Gerhard.

rfcv3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250121191047.269844-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx/
- patch 3:
- Removed the xdp checks completely, as Gerhard Engleder pointed
out, they are likely not necessary.

- patch 4:
- Added Xuan Zhuo's Reviewed-by.

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250116055302.14308-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx/
- patch 1:
- New in the v2 from Jakub.

- patch 2:
- Previously patch 1, unchanged from v1.
- Added Gerhard Engleder's Reviewed-by.
- Added Lei Yang's Tested-by.

- patch 3:
- Introduced virtnet_napi_disable to eliminate duplicated code
in virtnet_xdp_set, virtnet_rx_pause, virtnet_disable_queue_pair,
refill_work as suggested by Jason Wang.
- As a result of the above refactor, dropped Reviewed-by and
Tested-by from patch 3.

- patch 4:
- New in v2. Adds persistent NAPI configuration. See commit message
for more details.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250110202605.429475-1-jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx/

Joe Damato (4):
virtio-net: Refactor napi_enable paths
virtio-net: Refactor napi_disable paths
virtio-net: Map NAPIs to queues
virtio_net: Use persistent NAPI config

drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)


base-commit: 7fe0353606d77a32c4c7f2814833dd1c043ebdd2
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