Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanz...@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> This patch is used to construct skb based on page to save memory copy
> overhead.
>
> This function is implemented based on IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR. Only the
> network card priv_flags supports IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR will use page to
> directly construct skb. If this feature is not supported, it is still
> necessary to copy data to construct skb.
>
> ---------------- Performance Testing ------------
>
> The test environment is Aliyun ECS server.
> Test cmd:
> ```
> xdpsock -i eth0 -t -S -s <msg size>
> ```
>
> Test result data:
>
> size 64 512 1024 1500
> copy 1916747 1775988 1600203 1440054
> page 1974058 1953655 1945463 1904478
> percent 3.0% 10.0% 21.58% 32.3%
>
> Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanz...@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust...@linux.alibaba.com>
> [ alobakin:
> - expand subject to make it clearer;
> - improve skb->truesize calculation;
> - reserve some headroom in skb for drivers;
> - tailroom is not needed as skb is non-linear ]
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aloba...@pm.me>
> Acked-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karls...@intel.com>
> ---
[...]
> + buffer = xsk_buff_raw_get_data(pool, addr);
> + offset = offset_in_page(buffer);
> + addr = buffer - pool->addrs;
> +
> + for (copied = 0, i = 0; copied < len; i++) {
> + page = pool->umem->pgs[addr >> PAGE_SHIFT];
Looks like we could walk off the end of pgs[] if len is larger than
the number of pgs? Do we need to guard against a misconfigured socket
causing a panic here? AFAIU len here is read from the user space
descriptor so is under user control. Or maybe I missed a check somewhere.
Thanks,
John
> + get_page(page);
> +
> + copy = min_t(u32, PAGE_SIZE - offset, len - copied);
> + skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, page, offset, copy);
> +
> + copied += copy;
> + addr += copy;
> + offset = 0;
> + }
> +
> + skb->len += len;
> + skb->data_len += len;
> + skb->truesize += ts;
> +
> + refcount_add(ts, &xs->sk.sk_wmem_alloc);
> +
> + return skb;
> +}
> +
