On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 8:54 PM wangyunjian <wangyunj...@huawei.com> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Wang [mailto:jasow...@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 12:49 PM
> > To: wangyunjian <wangyunj...@huawei.com>
> > Cc: m...@redhat.com; willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com; k...@kernel.org;
> > da...@davemloft.net; magnus.karls...@intel.com; net...@vger.kernel.org;
> > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org;
> > virtualizat...@lists.linux.dev; xudingke <xudin...@huawei.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] tun: AF_XDP Rx zero-copy support
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM Yunjian Wang <wangyunj...@huawei.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Now the zero-copy feature of AF_XDP socket is supported by some
> > > drivers, which can reduce CPU utilization on the xdp program.
> > > This patch set allows tun to support AF_XDP Rx zero-copy feature.
> > >
> > > This patch tries to address this by:
> > > - Use peek_len to consume a xsk->desc and get xsk->desc length.
> > > - When the tun support AF_XDP Rx zero-copy, the vq's array maybe empty.
> > > So add a check for empty vq's array in vhost_net_buf_produce().
> > > - add XDP_SETUP_XSK_POOL and ndo_xsk_wakeup callback support
> > > - add tun_put_user_desc function to copy the Rx data to VM
> >
> > Code explains themselves, let's explain why you need to do this.
> >
> > 1) why you want to use peek_len
> > 2) for "vq's array", what does it mean?
> > 3) from the view of TUN/TAP tun_put_user_desc() is the TX path, so I guess 
> > you
> > meant TX zerocopy instead of RX (as I don't see codes for
> > RX?)
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> OK, I agree and use TX zerocopy instead of RX zerocopy. I meant RX zerocopy
> from the view of vhost-net.

Ok.

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> > A big question is how could you handle GSO packets from userspace/guests?
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> Now by disabling VM's TSO and csum feature.

Btw, how could you do that?

Thanks


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