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>

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 5efa68de935b..9b698c5acd05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -3664,14 +3664,19 @@ netdev_tx_t i40e_lan_xmit_frame(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
  * @dev: netdev
  * @xdp: XDP buffer
  *
- * Returns Zero if sent, else an error code
+ * Returns number of frames successfully sent. Frames that fail are
+ * free'ed via XDP return API.
+ *
+ * For error cases, a negative errno code is returned and no-frames
+ * are transmitted (caller must handle freeing frames).
  **/
-int i40e_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdpf)
+int i40e_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, int n, struct xdp_frame **frames)
 {
 	struct i40e_netdev_priv *np = netdev_priv(dev);
 	unsigned int queue_index = smp_processor_id();
 	struct i40e_vsi *vsi = np->vsi;
-	int err;
+	int drops = 0;
+	int i;
 
 	if (test_bit(__I40E_VSI_DOWN, vsi->state))
 		return -ENETDOWN;
@@ -3679,11 +3684,18 @@ int i40e_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdpf)
 	if (!i40e_enabled_xdp_vsi(vsi) || queue_index >= vsi->num_queue_pairs)
 		return -ENXIO;
 
-	err = i40e_xmit_xdp_ring(xdpf, vsi->xdp_rings[queue_index]);
-	if (err != I40E_XDP_TX)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+		struct xdp_frame *xdpf = frames[i];
+		int err;
 
-	return 0;
+		err = i40e_xmit_xdp_ring(xdpf, vsi->xdp_rings[queue_index]);
+		if (err != I40E_XDP_TX) {
+			xdp_return_frame_rx_napi(xdpf);
+			drops++;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return n - drops;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
index fdd2c55f03a6..eb8804b3d7b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.h
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ u32 i40e_get_tx_pending(struct i40e_ring *ring, bool in_sw);
 void i40e_detect_recover_hung(struct i40e_vsi *vsi);
 int __i40e_maybe_stop_tx(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int size);
 bool __i40e_chk_linearize(struct sk_buff *skb);
-int i40e_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdpf);
+int i40e_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, int n, struct xdp_frame **frames);
 void i40e_xdp_flush(struct net_device *dev);
 
 /**
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 6652b201df5b..9645619f7729 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -10017,11 +10017,13 @@ static int ixgbe_xdp(struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_bpf *xdp)
 	}
 }
 
-static int ixgbe_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdpf)
+static int ixgbe_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, int n,
+			  struct xdp_frame **frames)
 {
 	struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct ixgbe_ring *ring;
-	int err;
+	int drops = 0;
+	int i;
 
 	if (unlikely(test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state)))
 		return -ENETDOWN;
@@ -10033,11 +10035,18 @@ static int ixgbe_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev, struct xdp_frame *xdpf)
 	if (unlikely(!ring))
 		return -ENXIO;
 
-	err = ixgbe_xmit_xdp_ring(adapter, xdpf);
-	if (err != IXGBE_XDP_TX)
-		return -ENOSPC;
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+		struct xdp_frame *xdpf = frames[i];
+		int err;
 
-	return 0;
+		err = ixgbe_xmit_xdp_ring(adapter, xdpf);
+		if (err != IXGBE_XDP_TX) {
+			xdp_return_frame_rx_napi(xdpf);
+			drops++;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return n - drops;
 }
 
 static void ixgbe_xdp_flush(struct net_device *dev)