On 17-01-25 06:52 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:33:56PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:02 PM, John Fastabend
>> <john.fastab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Finally just to point out here are the drivers with XDP support on latest
>>> net tree,
>>>
>>>         mlx/mlx5
>>>         mlx/mlx4
>>>         qlogic/qede
>>>         netronome/nfp
>>>         virtio_net
>>>
>>> And here is the list of adjust header support,
>>>
>>>         mlx/mlx4
>>>
>>
>> in net-next it's actually:
>> yes: mlx4, mlx5
>> no: qede, nfp, virtio
>> while nfp and virtio are working on it.
>>
>> xdp_adjust_head() is must have for load balancer,
> 
> What amount of head space does it need? 70 bytes
> to do vxlan kind of thing?
> 
>> so the sooner it lands for virtio the easier it will be
>> to develop xdp programs. Initially I expected
>> e1k+xdp to be the base line for debugging and
>> development of xdp programs, but since not everyone
>> agreed on e1k the virtio+xdp filled in the gap.
>> So without adjust_head in virtio I see very little use for it
>> in our environment.
>> It is a must have feature regardless of timing.
>> I will backport whatever is necessary, but distros
>> will stick with official releases and imo it's not great
>> from xdp adoption point of view to have
>> virtio driver lacking key features.
> 
> If everyone can agree it's net-next material then I'm happy.
> 

Considering that the only support for adjust_head in net branch
is in mlx4 and most drivers are aborting when programs get loaded
with adjust_head support I am OK with applying the patch below to
net and this series to net-next.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/707118/

 diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
 index 08327e005ccc..db761f37783e 100644
 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
 +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
 @@ -1677,6 +1677,11 @@  static int virtnet_xdp_set(struct net_device *dev,
struct bpf_prog *prog)
        u16 xdp_qp = 0, curr_qp;
        int i, err;

 +      if (prog && prog->xdp_adjust_head) {
 +              netdev_warn(dev, "Does not support bpf_xdp_adjust_head()\n");
 +              return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 +      }
 +
        if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO4) ||
            virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_TSO6)) {
                netdev_warn(dev, "can't set XDP while host is implementing LRO, 
disable LRO
first\n");


Thanks,
John

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