On 17-01-30 06:53 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 1/27/17 1:34 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
>> +h2 = page_address(rx_buffer->page) + rx_buffer->page_offset - hdrlen;
>> +eth = page_address(rx_buffer->page) + rx_buffer->page_offset,
>
> I don't think it compiles ;)
Well that is what I get for doing some last minute checkpatch fixes
and not doing a build test before sending it out. Oh well just an RFC
to get some general feedback.
>
>> +/* This indicates a bug in ixgbe leaving for testing purposes */
>> +WARN_ON(TP_STATUS_USER & h2->tp_status);
>> +len = le16_to_cpu(rx_desc->wb.upper.length);
>> +h2->tp_len = len;
>> +h2->tp_snaplen = len;
>> +h2->tp_mac = ALIGN(TPACKET_ALIGN(TPACKET2_HDRLEN), L1_CACHE_BYTES);
>> +h2->tp_net = h2->tp_mac + ETH_HLEN;
>> +h2->tp_sec = div_s64_rem(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, );
>> +h2->tp_nsec = rem;
>> +
>> +sll = (void *)h2 + TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(struct tpacket2_hdr));
>> +sll->sll_halen = ETH_HLEN;
>> +memcpy(sll->sll_addr, eth->h_source, ETH_ALEN);
>> +sll->sll_family = AF_PACKET;
>> +sll->sll_hatype = rx_ring->netdev->type;
>> +sll->sll_protocol = eth->h_proto;
>> +sll->sll_pkttype = PACKET_HOST;
>> +sll->sll_ifindex = rx_ring->netdev->ifindex;
>
> performance wise it looks very expensive to do all these header copies
> and integer divide for every packet.
> I think unless we move to new dumb and simple header format
> performance of this approach is not going to be satisfactory.
>
Sure I'm not opposed to moving to a v4 in fact I think it would help
in a lot of ways. I'll try to fire off some benchmarks and then move
to a v4 to see how that works out.
.John
