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
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xdp_umem.c	mm, tree-wide: rename put_user_page*() to unpin_user_page*()	2020-01-31 10:30:38 -08:00
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xsk_queue.c	xsk: Use struct_size() helper	2019-12-20 16:00:09 -08:00
xsk_queue.h	xsk: Publish global consumer pointers when NAPI is finished	2020-02-11 15:51:11 +01:00
xsk.c	xsk: Publish global consumer pointers when NAPI is finished	2020-02-11 15:51:11 +01:00
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