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Randy Dunlap
221fb7268d Documentation/networking: fix af_xdp.rst Sphinx warnings
Fix Sphinx warnings in Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst by
adding indentation:

Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst:319: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found.
Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst:326: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found.

Fixes: 0f4a9b7d4e ("xsk: add FAQ to facilitate for first time users")

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2019-05-21 16:19:49 +02:00
Magnus Karlsson
0f4a9b7d4e xsk: add FAQ to facilitate for first time users
Added an FAQ section in Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst to help
first time users with common problems. As problems are getting
identified, entries will be added to the FAQ.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2019-02-25 23:21:42 +01:00
Konrad Djimeli
7ccc4f1887 bpf: typo fix in Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst
Fix a simple typo: Completetion -> Completion

Signed-off-by: Konrad Djimeli <kdjimeli@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-10-05 00:11:24 +02:00
Björn Töpel
bbff2f321a xsk: new descriptor addressing scheme
Currently, AF_XDP only supports a fixed frame-size memory scheme where
each frame is referenced via an index (idx). A user passes the frame
index to the kernel, and the kernel acts upon the data.  Some NICs,
however, do not have a fixed frame-size model, instead they have a
model where a memory window is passed to the hardware and multiple
frames are filled into that window (referred to as the "type-writer"
model).

By changing the descriptor format from the current frame index
addressing scheme, AF_XDP can in the future be extended to support
these kinds of NICs.

In the index-based model, an idx refers to a frame of size
frame_size. Addressing a frame in the UMEM is done by offseting the
UMEM starting address by a global offset, idx * frame_size + offset.
Communicating via the fill- and completion-rings are done by means of
idx.

In this commit, the idx is removed in favor of an address (addr),
which is a relative address ranging over the UMEM. To convert an
idx-based address to the new addr is simply: addr = idx * frame_size +
offset.

We also stop referring to the UMEM "frame" as a frame. Instead it is
simply called a chunk.

To transfer ownership of a chunk to the kernel, the addr of the chunk
is passed in the fill-ring. Note, that the kernel will mask addr to
make it chunk aligned, so there is no need for userspace to do
that. E.g., for a chunk size of 2k, passing an addr of 2048, 2050 or
3000 to the fill-ring will refer to the same chunk.

On the completion-ring, the addr will match that of the Tx descriptor,
passed to the kernel.

Changing the descriptor format to use chunks/addr will allow for
future changes to move to a type-writer based model, where multiple
frames can reside in one chunk. In this model passing one single chunk
into the fill-ring, would potentially result in multiple Rx
descriptors.

This commit changes the uapi of AF_XDP sockets, and updates the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-06-04 17:21:02 +02:00
Magnus Karlsson
b4b8faa1de samples/bpf: sample application and documentation for AF_XDP sockets
This is a sample application for AF_XDP sockets. The application
supports three different modes of operation: rxdrop, txonly and l2fwd.

To show-case a simple round-robin load-balancing between a set of
sockets in an xskmap, set the RR_LB compile time define option to 1 in
"xdpsock.h".

v2: The entries variable was calculated twice in {umem,xq}_nb_avail.

Co-authored-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2018-05-03 15:55:25 -07:00