leandrof/linux
1
0
Fork 0
forked from Minki/linux
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
mainlining shenanigans
900,294 Commits 2 Branches 0 Tags 5.1 GiB
C 97.7%
Assembly 1.1%
Shell 0.4%
Makefile 0.3%
Python 0.2%
Other 0.1%
30744a6862
Go to file
Magnus Karlsson 30744a6862 xsk: Publish global consumer pointers when NAPI is finished 
The commit 4b638f13ba ("xsk: Eliminate the RX batch size")
introduced a much more lazy way of updating the global consumer
pointers from the kernel side, by only doing so when running out of
entries in the fill or Tx rings (the rings consumed by the
kernel). This can result in a deadlock with the user application if
the kernel requires more than one entry to proceed and the application
cannot put these entries in the fill ring because the kernel has not
updated the global consumer pointer since the ring is not empty.

Fix this by publishing the local kernel side consumer pointer whenever
we have completed Rx or Tx processing in the kernel. This way, user
space will have an up-to-date view of the consumer pointers whenever it
gets to execute in the one core case (application and driver on the
same core), or after a certain number of packets have been processed
in the two core case (application and driver on different cores).

A side effect of this patch is that the one core case gets better
performance, but the two core case gets worse. The reason that the one
core case improves is that updating the global consumer pointer is
relatively cheap since the application by definition is not running
when the kernel is (they are on the same core) and it is beneficial
for the application, once it gets to run, to have pointers that are
as up to date as possible since it then can operate on more packets
and buffers. In the two core case, the most important performance
aspect is to minimize the number of accesses to the global pointers
since they are shared between two cores and bounces between the caches
of those cores. This patch results in more updates to global state,
which means lower performance in the two core case.

Fixes: 4b638f13ba ("xsk: Eliminate the RX batch size")
Reported-by: Ryan Goodfellow <rgoodfel@isi.edu>
Reported-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@mellanox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1581348432-6747-1-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@intel.com
2020-02-11 15:51:11 +01:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.6 #2 2020-02-08 14:28:26 -08:00
block block-5.6-2020-02-05 2020-02-06 06:15:23 +00:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto treewide: remove redundant IS_ERR() before error code check 2020-02-04 03:05:27 +00:00
Documentation ARM: SoC-related driver updates 2020-02-08 14:04:19 -08:00
drivers qmi_wwan: unconditionally reject 2 ep interfaces 2020-02-10 14:03:27 +01:00
fs compat-ioctl fix for v5.6 2020-02-08 13:44:41 -08:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-02-08 17:15:08 -08:00
init Tracing updates: 2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
ipc proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
kernel bpf: Make btf_check_func_type_match() static 2020-02-11 00:22:47 +01:00
lib Tracing updates: 2020-02-06 07:12:11 +00:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'merge.nfs-fs_parse.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-02-08 13:26:41 -08:00
net xsk: Publish global consumer pointers when NAPI is finished 2020-02-11 15:51:11 +01:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2020-02-08 15:01:03 +01:00
scripts A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in. 2020-02-07 13:03:10 -08:00
security Merge branch 'merge.nfs-fs_parse.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-02-08 13:26:41 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.6-rc1 2020-02-06 14:15:01 +00:00
tools bpf: Selftests build error in sockmap_basic.c 2020-02-10 14:31:34 -08:00
usr initramfs: do not show compression mode choice if INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty 2020-02-03 17:31:43 +00:00
virt KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running 2020-02-05 15:27:46 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in. 2020-02-07 13:03:10 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS SCSI misc on 20200208 2020-02-08 17:24:41 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.6 2020-02-01 10:01:52 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
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:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

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.