[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] net/af_xdp: introduce AF XDP PMD driver
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Mar 19 17:16:27 CET 2019
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:12:51 +0800
Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye at intel.com> wrote:
> Add a new PMD driver for AF_XDP which is a proposed faster version of
> AF_PACKET interface in Linux. More info about AF_XDP, please refer to [1]
> [2].
>
> This is the vanilla version PMD which just uses a raw buffer registered as
> the umem.
>
> [1] https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/af_xdp/
> [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/745934/
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +
> config/common_base | 5 +
> config/common_linux | 1 +
> doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst | 45 +
> doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.ini | 11 +
> doc/guides/nics/index.rst | 1 +
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 7 +
> drivers/net/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/net/af_xdp/Makefile | 33 +
> drivers/net/af_xdp/meson.build | 21 +
> drivers/net/af_xdp/rte_eth_af_xdp.c | 930 ++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/af_xdp/rte_pmd_af_xdp_version.map | 3 +
> drivers/net/meson.build | 1 +
> mk/rte.app.mk | 1 +
> 14 files changed, 1066 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
> create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.ini
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/af_xdp/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/af_xdp/meson.build
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/af_xdp/rte_eth_af_xdp.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/af_xdp/rte_pmd_af_xdp_version.map
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 452b8eb82..1cc54b439 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -468,6 +468,12 @@ M: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> F: drivers/net/af_packet/
> F: doc/guides/nics/features/afpacket.ini
>
> +Linux AF_XDP
> +M: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> +M: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> +F: drivers/net/af_xdp/
> +F: doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.rst
> +
> Amazon ENA
> M: Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>
> M: Michal Krawczyk <mk at semihalf.com>
> diff --git a/config/common_base b/config/common_base
> index 0b09a9348..4044de205 100644
> --- a/config/common_base
> +++ b/config/common_base
> @@ -416,6 +416,11 @@ CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_DEBUG_TX_FREE=n
> #
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_PACKET=n
>
> +#
> +# Compile software PMD backed by AF_XDP sockets (Linux only)
> +#
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_XDP=n
> +
> #
> # Compile link bonding PMD library
> #
> diff --git a/config/common_linux b/config/common_linux
> index 75334273d..0b1249da0 100644
> --- a/config/common_linux
> +++ b/config/common_linux
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_POSTCOPY=n
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_VHOST=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IFC_PMD=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_PACKET=y
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_XDP=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_SOFTNIC=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_TAP=y
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_AVP_PMD=y
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst b/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..dd5654dd1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/af_xdp.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> + Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
> +
> +AF_XDP Poll Mode Driver
> +==========================
> +
> +AF_XDP is an address family that is optimized for high performance
> +packet processing. AF_XDP sockets enable the possibility for XDP program to
> +redirect packets to a memory buffer in userspace.
> +
> +For the full details behind AF_XDP socket, you can refer to
> +`AF_XDP documentation in the Kernel
> +<https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst>`_.
> +
> +This Linux-specific PMD driver creates the AF_XDP socket and binds it to a
> +specific netdev queue, it allows a DPDK application to send and receive raw
> +packets through the socket which would bypass the kernel network stack.
> +Current implementation only supports single queue, multi-queues feature will
> +be added later.
> +
> +Options
> +-------
> +
> +The following options can be provided to set up an af_xdp port in DPDK.
> +
> +* ``iface`` - name of the Kernel interface to attach to (required);
> +* ``queue`` - netdev queue id (optional, default 0);
> +
> +Prerequisites
> +-------------
> +
> +This is a Linux-specific PMD, thus the following prerequisites apply:
> +
> +* A Linux Kernel (version > 4.18) with XDP sockets configuration enabled;
> +* libbpf (within kernel version > 5.1) with latest af_xdp support installed
> +* A Kernel bound interface to attach to.
> +
> +Set up an af_xdp interface
> +-----------------------------
> +
> +The following example will set up an af_xdp interface in DPDK:
> +
> +.. code-block:: console
> +
> + --vdev eth_af_xdp,iface=ens786f1,queue=0
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.ini
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..7b8fcce00
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/af_xdp.ini
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +;
> +; Supported features of the 'af_xdp' network poll mode driver.
> +;
> +; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
> +;
> +[Features]
> +Link status = Y
> +MTU update = Y
> +Promiscuous mode = Y
> +Stats per queue = Y
> +x86-64 = Y
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