xdp: change ndo_xdp_xmit API to support bulking

This patch change the API for ndo_xdp_xmit to support bulking
xdp_frames.

When kernel is compiled with CONFIG_RETPOLINE, XDP sees a huge slowdown.
Most of the slowdown is caused by DMA API indirect function calls, but
also the net_device->ndo_xdp_xmit() call.

Benchmarked patch with CONFIG_RETPOLINE, using xdp_redirect_map with
single flow/core test (CPU E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz), showed
performance improved:
 for driver ixgbe: 6,042,682 pps -> 6,853,768 pps = +811,086 pps
 for driver i40e : 6,187,169 pps -> 6,724,519 pps = +537,350 pps

With frames avail as a bulk inside the driver ndo_xdp_xmit call,
further optimizations are possible, like bulk DMA-mapping for TX.

Testing without CONFIG_RETPOLINE show the same performance for
physical NIC drivers.

The virtual NIC driver tun sees a huge performance boost, as it can
avoid doing per frame producer locking, but instead amortize the
locking cost over the bulk.

V2: Fix compile errors reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
V4: Isolated ndo, driver changes and callers.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 03ed492c4e14a..debdb6286170d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1185,9 +1185,13 @@ struct dev_ifalias {
  *	This function is used to set or query state related to XDP on the
  *	netdevice and manage BPF offload. See definition of
  *	enum bpf_netdev_command for details.
- * int (*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdp);
- *	This function is used to submit a XDP packet for transmit on a
- *	netdevice.
+ * int (*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, int n, struct xdp_frame **xdp);
+ *	This function is used to submit @n XDP packets for transmit on a
+ *	netdevice. Returns number of frames successfully transmitted, frames
+ *	that got dropped are freed/returned via xdp_return_frame().
+ *	Returns negative number, means general error invoking ndo, meaning
+ *	no frames were xmit'ed and core-caller will free all frames.
+ *	TODO: Consider add flag to allow sending flush operation.
  * void (*ndo_xdp_flush)(struct net_device *dev);
  *	This function is used to inform the driver to flush a particular
  *	xdp tx queue. Must be called on same CPU as xdp_xmit.
@@ -1375,8 +1379,8 @@ struct net_device_ops {
 						       int needed_headroom);
 	int			(*ndo_bpf)(struct net_device *dev,
 					   struct netdev_bpf *bpf);
-	int			(*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev,
-						struct xdp_frame *xdp);
+	int			(*ndo_xdp_xmit)(struct net_device *dev, int n,
+						struct xdp_frame **xdp);
 	void			(*ndo_xdp_flush)(struct net_device *dev);
 };