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From: "Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_xdp: fix support of secondary process
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:09:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PH0PR11MB479125538268219C678ECA8B8EA09@PH0PR11MB4791.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210920074337.595f3742@hermes.local>

> 
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:23:57 +0000
> "Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > > Sent: Friday 3 September 2021 17:15
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>;
> > > stable@dpdk.org; xiaolong.ye@intel.com
> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_xdp: fix support of secondary
> process
> > >
> > > Doing basic operations like info_get or get_stats was broken
> > > in af_xdp PMD. The info_get would crash because dev->device
> > > was NULL in secondary process. Fix this by doing same initialization
> > > as af_packet and tap devices.
> > >
> > > The get_stats would crash because the XDP socket is not open in
> > > primary process. As a workaround don't query kernel for dropped
> > > packets when called from secondary process.
> > >
> > > Note: this does not address the other bug which is that transmitting
> > > in secondary process is broken because the send() in tx_kick
> > > will fail because XDP socket fd is not valid in secondary process.
> >
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > Apologies for the delayed reply, I was on vacation.
> >
> > In the Bugzilla report you suggest we:
> > "mark AF_XDP as broken in with primary/secondary
> > and return an error in probe in secondary process".
> > I agree with this suggestion. However with this patch we still permit
> secondary, and just make sure it doesn't crash for get_stats. Did you change
> your mind?
> > Personally, I would prefer to have primary/secondary either working 100%
> or else not allowed at all by throwing an error during probe. What do you
> think? Do you have a reason/use case to permit secondary processes despite
> some features not being available eg. full stats, tx?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ciara
> 
> There are two cases where secondary is useful even if send/receive can't
> work from secondary process.
> The pdump and proc-info applications can work with these patches.
> 
> I am using XDP over pdump as an easy way to get packets into the code for
> testing.
> 
> The flag in the documentation doesn't have a "limited" version.
> If you want, will send another patch to disable secondary support.

Thanks for explaining. Since there are use cases for secondary, even if the functionality is limited, I don't think it should be disabled.
Since we can't flag it as 'limited' in the feature matrix, could you please add a note about the send/receive limitation in the AF_XDP PMD documentation in a v2? There are already a number of limitations listed, which you can add to.

Thanks,
Ciara

> 
> Supporting secondary, means adding a mechanism to pass the socket
> around.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 16:15 Stephen Hemminger
2021-09-15  8:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-20 13:23 ` [dpdk-dev] " Loftus, Ciara
2021-09-20 14:43   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-09-20 15:09     ` Loftus, Ciara [this message]
2021-09-21 17:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-09-23 12:33         ` Loftus, Ciara
2021-10-05 15:02           ` Ferruh Yigit

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