In commit 6f8b12d661 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral feature")
napi_defer_irqs was added to net_device and napi_defer_irqs_count was
added to napi_struct, both as type int.
This value never goes below zero, so there is not reason for it to be a
signed int. Change the type for both from int to u32, and add an
overflow check to sysfs to limit the value to S32_MAX.
The limit of S32_MAX was chosen because the practical limit before this
patch was S32_MAX (anything larger was an overflow) and thus there are
no behavioral changes introduced. If the extra bit is needed in the
future, the limit can be raised.
Before this patch:
$ sudo bash -c 'echo 2147483649 > /sys/class/net/eth4/napi_defer_hard_irqs'
$ cat /sys/class/net/eth4/napi_defer_hard_irqs
-2147483647
After this patch:
$ sudo bash -c 'echo 2147483649 > /sys/class/net/eth4/napi_defer_hard_irqs'
bash: line 0: echo: write error: Numerical result out of range
Similarly, /sys/class/net/XXXXX/tx_queue_len is defined as unsigned:
include/linux/netdevice.h: unsigned int tx_queue_len;
And has an overflow check:
dev_change_tx_queue_len(..., unsigned long new_len):
if (new_len != (unsigned int)new_len)
return -ERANGE;
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240904153431.307932-1-jdamato@fastly.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Ability to handle maximum FCoE frames of 2158 bytes can never be changed
and thus more of an attribute, not a toggleable feature.
Move it from netdev_features_t to "cold" priv flags (bitfield bool) and
free yet another feature bit.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
"Interface can't change network namespaces" is rather an attribute,
not a feature, and it can't be changed via Ethtool.
Make it a "cold" private flag instead of a netdev_feature and free
one more bit.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
NETIF_F_LLTX can't be changed via Ethtool and is not a feature,
rather an attribute, very similar to IFF_NO_QUEUE (and hot).
Free one netdev_features_t bit and make it a "hot" private flag.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Make dev->priv_flags `u32` back and define bits higher than 31 as
bitfield booleans as per Jakub's suggestion. This simplifies code
which accesses these bits with no optimization loss (testb both
before/after), allows to not extend &netdev_priv_flags each time,
but also scales better as bits > 63 in the future would only add
a new u64 to the structure with no complications, comparing to
that extending ::priv_flags would require converting it to a bitmap.
Note that I picked `unsigned long :1` to not lose any potential
optimizations comparing to `bool :1` etc.
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Two fields, page_pools and *irq_moder, were added to struct net_device
in commit 083772c9f9 ("net: page_pool: record pools per netdev") and
commit f750dfe825 ("ethtool: provide customized dim profile
management"), respectively.
Add both to the net_cachelines documentation, as well.
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240829155742.366584-1-jdamato@fastly.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
dev->state can be read in rx and tx fast paths.
netif_running() which needs dev->state is called from
- enqueue_to_backlog() [RX path]
- __dev_direct_xmit() [TX path]
Fixes: 43a71cd66b ("net-device: reorganize net_device fast path variables")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314200845.3050179-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
dev->lstats is notably used from loopback ndo_start_xmit()
and other virtual drivers.
Per cpu stats updates are dirtying per-cpu data,
but the pointer itself is read-only.
Fixes: 43a71cd66b ("net-device: reorganize net_device fast path variables")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
xdp_prog is used in receive path, both from XDP enabled drivers
and from netif_elide_gro().
This patch also removes two 4-bytes holes.
Fixes: 43a71cd66b ("net-device: reorganize net_device fast path variables")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240102162220.750823-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
dev->gso_partial_features is read from tx fast path for GSO packets.
Move it to appropriate section to avoid a cache line miss.
Fixes: 43a71cd66b ("net-device: reorganize net_device fast path variables")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Analyzed a few structs in the networking stack by looking at variables
within them that are used in the TCP/IP fast path.
Fast path is defined as TCP path where data is transferred from sender to
receiver unidirectionally. It doesn't include phases other than
TCP_ESTABLISHED, nor does it look at error paths.
We hope to re-organizing variables that span many cachelines whose fast
path variables are also spread out, and this document can help future
developers keep networking fast path cachelines small.
Optimized_cacheline field is computed as
(Fastpath_Bytes/L3_cacheline_size_x86), and not the actual organized
results (see patches to come for these).
Investigation is done on 6.5
Name Struct_Cachelines Cur_fastpath_cache Fastpath_Bytes Optimized_cacheline
tcp_sock 42 (2664 Bytes) 12 396 8
net_device 39 (2240 bytes) 12 234 4
inet_sock 15 (960 bytes) 14 922 14
Inet_connection_sock 22 (1368 bytes) 18 1166 18
Netns_ipv4 (sysctls) 12 (768 bytes) 4 77 2
linux_mib 16 (1060) 6 104 2
Note how there isn't much improvement space for inet_sock and
Inet_connection_sock because sk and icsk_inet respectively takes up so
much of the struct that rest of the variables become a small portion of
the struct size.
So, we decided to reorganize tcp_sock, net_device, netns_ipv4
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
