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Magnus Karlsson 47e4075df3 xsk: Batched buffer allocation for the pool
Add a new driver interface xsk_buff_alloc_batch() offering batched
buffer allocations to improve performance. The new interface takes
three arguments: the buffer pool to allocated from, a pointer to an
array of struct xdp_buff pointers which will contain pointers to the
allocated xdp_buffs, and an unsigned integer specifying the max number
of buffers to allocate. The return value is the actual number of
buffers that the allocator managed to allocate and it will be in the
range 0 <= N <= max, where max is the third parameter to the function.

u32 xsk_buff_alloc_batch(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool, struct xdp_buff **xdp,
                         u32 max);

A second driver interface is also introduced that need to be used in
conjunction with xsk_buff_alloc_batch(). It is a helper that sets the
size of struct xdp_buff and is used by the NIC Rx irq routine when
receiving a packet. This helper sets the three struct members data,
data_meta, and data_end. The two first ones is in the xsk_buff_alloc()
case set in the allocation routine and data_end is set when a packet
is received in the receive irq function. This unfortunately leads to
worse performance since the xdp_buff is touched twice with a long time
period in between leading to an extra cache miss. Instead, we fill out
the xdp_buff with all 3 fields at one single point in time in the
driver, when the size of the packet is known. Hence this helper. Note
that the driver has to use this helper (or set all three fields
itself) when using xsk_buff_alloc_batch(). xsk_buff_alloc() works as
before and does not require this.

void xsk_buff_set_size(struct xdp_buff *xdp, u32 size);

Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210922075613.12186-3-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com
2021-09-28 00:18:34 +02:00
arch Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-09-17 12:40:21 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-09-11 2021-09-11 10:19:51 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
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Documentation bpf: Document BPF licensing. 2021-09-22 23:13:13 +02:00
drivers net: phy: bcm7xxx: Add EPHY entry for 72165 2021-09-17 11:49:55 -07:00
fs qnx4: avoid stringop-overread errors 2021-09-15 13:56:37 -07:00
include xsk: Batched buffer allocation for the pool 2021-09-28 00:18:34 +02:00
init memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel bpf: Support <8-byte scalar spill and refill 2021-09-26 13:07:27 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.