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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Lunn , Jeroen de Borst , Harshitha Ramamurthy , Kuniyuki Iwashima , Willem de Bruijn , Jens Axboe , Pavel Begunkov , David Ahern , Neal Cardwell , Stefan Hajnoczi , Stefano Garzarella , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Xuan Zhuo , "=?UTF-8?q?Eugenio=20P=C3=A9rez?=" , Shuah Khan , sdf@fomichev.me, dw@davidwei.uk, Jamal Hadi Salim , Victor Nogueira , Pedro Tammela , Samiullah Khawaja Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Add documentation outlining the usage and details of the devmem TCP TX API. Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev --- v5: - Address comments from Stan and Bagas v4: - Mention SO_BINDTODEVICE is recommended (me/Pavel). v2: - Update documentation for iov_base is the dmabuf offset (Stan) --- Documentation/networking/devmem.rst | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 146 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst b/Documentation/networking= /devmem.rst index eb678ca454968..a6cd7236bfbd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devmem.rst @@ -62,15 +62,15 @@ More Info https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240831004313.3713467-1-almasrymina@go= ogle.com/ =20 =20 -Interface -=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +RX Interface +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 =20 Example ------- =20 -tools/testing/selftests/net/ncdevmem.c:do_server shows an example of setti= ng up -the RX path of this API. +./tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem:do_server shows an examp= le of +setting up the RX path of this API. =20 =20 NIC Setup @@ -235,6 +235,148 @@ can be less than the tokens provided by the user in c= ase of: (a) an internal kernel leak bug. (b) the user passed more than 1024 frags. =20 +TX Interface +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + + +Example +------- + +./tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem:do_client shows an examp= le of +setting up the TX path of this API. + + +NIC Setup +--------- + +The user must bind a TX dmabuf to a given NIC using the netlink API:: + + struct netdev_bind_tx_req *req =3D NULL; + struct netdev_bind_tx_rsp *rsp =3D NULL; + struct ynl_error yerr; + + *ys =3D ynl_sock_create(&ynl_netdev_family, &yerr); + + req =3D netdev_bind_tx_req_alloc(); + netdev_bind_tx_req_set_ifindex(req, ifindex); + netdev_bind_tx_req_set_fd(req, dmabuf_fd); + + rsp =3D netdev_bind_tx(*ys, req); + + tx_dmabuf_id =3D rsp->id; + + +The netlink API returns a dmabuf_id: a unique ID that refers to this dmabuf +that has been bound. + +The user can unbind the dmabuf from the netdevice by closing the netlink s= ocket +that established the binding. We do this so that the binding is automatica= lly +unbound even if the userspace process crashes. + +Note that any reasonably well-behaved dmabuf from any exporter should work= with +devmem TCP, even if the dmabuf is not actually backed by devmem. An exampl= e of +this is udmabuf, which wraps user memory (non-devmem) in a dmabuf. + +Socket Setup +------------ + +The user application must use MSG_ZEROCOPY flag when sending devmem TCP. D= evmem +cannot be copied by the kernel, so the semantics of the devmem TX are simi= lar +to the semantics of MSG_ZEROCOPY:: + + setsockopt(socket_fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, &opt, sizeof(opt)); + +It is also recommended that the user binds the TX socket to the same inter= face +the dma-buf has been bound to via SO_BINDTODEVICE:: + + setsockopt(socket_fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, ifname, strlen(ifname)= + 1); + + +Sending data +------------ + +Devmem data is sent using the SCM_DEVMEM_DMABUF cmsg. + +The user should create a msghdr where, + +* iov_base is set to the offset into the dmabuf to start sending from +* iov_len is set to the number of bytes to be sent from the dmabuf + +The user passes the dma-buf id to send from via the dmabuf_tx_cmsg.dmabuf_= id. + +The example below sends 1024 bytes from offset 100 into the dmabuf, and 20= 48 +from offset 2000 into the dmabuf. The dmabuf to send from is tx_dmabuf_id:: + + char ctrl_data[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct dmabuf_tx_cmsg))]; + struct dmabuf_tx_cmsg ddmabuf; + struct msghdr msg =3D {}; + struct cmsghdr *cmsg; + struct iovec iov[2]; + + iov[0].iov_base =3D (void*)100; + iov[0].iov_len =3D 1024; + iov[1].iov_base =3D (void*)2000; + iov[1].iov_len =3D 2048; + + msg.msg_iov =3D iov; + msg.msg_iovlen =3D 2; + + msg.msg_control =3D ctrl_data; + msg.msg_controllen =3D sizeof(ctrl_data); + + cmsg =3D CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); + cmsg->cmsg_level =3D SOL_SOCKET; + cmsg->cmsg_type =3D SCM_DEVMEM_DMABUF; + cmsg->cmsg_len =3D CMSG_LEN(sizeof(struct dmabuf_tx_cmsg)); + + ddmabuf.dmabuf_id =3D tx_dmabuf_id; + + *((struct dmabuf_tx_cmsg *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg)) =3D ddmabuf; + + sendmsg(socket_fd, &msg, MSG_ZEROCOPY); + + +Reusing TX dmabufs +------------------ + +Similar to MSG_ZEROCOPY with regular memory, the user should not modify the +contents of the dma-buf while a send operation is in progress. This is bec= ause +the kernel does not keep a copy of the dmabuf contents. Instead, the kernel +will pin and send data from the buffer available to the userspace. + +Just as in MSG_ZEROCOPY, the kernel notifies the userspace of send complet= ions +using MSG_ERRQUEUE:: + + int64_t tstop =3D gettimeofday_ms() + waittime_ms; + char control[CMSG_SPACE(100)] =3D {}; + struct sock_extended_err *serr; + struct msghdr msg =3D {}; + struct cmsghdr *cm; + int retries =3D 10; + __u32 hi, lo; + + msg.msg_control =3D control; + msg.msg_controllen =3D sizeof(control); + + while (gettimeofday_ms() < tstop) { + if (!do_poll(fd)) continue; + + ret =3D recvmsg(fd, &msg, MSG_ERRQUEUE); + + for (cm =3D CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); cm; cm =3D CMSG_NXTHDR(&m= sg, cm)) { + serr =3D (void *)CMSG_DATA(cm); + + hi =3D serr->ee_data; + lo =3D serr->ee_info; + + fprintf(stdout, "tx complete [%d,%d]\n", lo, hi); + } + } + +After the associated sendmsg has been completed, the dmabuf can be reused = by +the userspace. + + Implementation & Caveats =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 --=20 2.49.0.805.g082f7c87e0-goog