From 3131cf66d3033aa40db5b5d72a2673315b61c862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Magnus Karlsson Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:31:04 +0200 Subject: samples/bpf: Fix one packet sending in xdpsock Fix the sending of a single packet (or small burst) in xdpsock when executing in copy mode. Currently, the l2fwd application in xdpsock only transmits the packets after a batch of them has been received, which might be confusing if you only send one packet and expect that it is returned pronto. Fix this by calling sendto() more often and add a comment in the code that states that this can be optimized if needed. Reported-by: Tirthendu Sarkar Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1599726666-8431-2-git-send-email-magnus.karlsson@gmail.com --- samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'samples') diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c b/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c index 4cead341ae57..b6175cb9a31d 100644 --- a/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c +++ b/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c @@ -897,6 +897,14 @@ static inline void complete_tx_l2fwd(struct xsk_socket_info *xsk, if (!xsk->outstanding_tx) return; + /* In copy mode, Tx is driven by a syscall so we need to use e.g. sendto() to + * really send the packets. In zero-copy mode we do not have to do this, since Tx + * is driven by the NAPI loop. So as an optimization, we do not have to call + * sendto() all the time in zero-copy mode for l2fwd. + */ + if (opt_xdp_bind_flags & XDP_COPY) + kick_tx(xsk); + ndescs = (xsk->outstanding_tx > opt_batch_size) ? opt_batch_size : xsk->outstanding_tx; -- cgit