mac80211: add a function for running rx without passing skbs to the stack

This can be used to run mac80211 rx processing on a batch of frames in NAPI
poll before passing them to the network stack in a large batch.
This can improve icache footprint, or it can be used to pass frames via
netif_receive_skb_list.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200726110611.46886-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Felix Fietkau 2020-07-26 13:06:11 +02:00 committed by Johannes Berg
parent cb17ed29a7
commit c5d1686b31
3 changed files with 64 additions and 23 deletions

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@ -4360,6 +4360,31 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
*/
void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw);
/**
* ieee80211_rx_list - receive frame and store processed skbs in a list
*
* Use this function to hand received frames to mac80211. The receive
* buffer in @skb must start with an IEEE 802.11 header. In case of a
* paged @skb is used, the driver is recommended to put the ieee80211
* header of the frame on the linear part of the @skb to avoid memory
* allocation and/or memcpy by the stack.
*
* This function may not be called in IRQ context. Calls to this function
* for a single hardware must be synchronized against each other. Calls to
* this function, ieee80211_rx_ni() and ieee80211_rx_irqsafe() may not be
* mixed for a single hardware. Must not run concurrently with
* ieee80211_tx_status() or ieee80211_tx_status_ni().
*
* This function must be called with BHs disabled and RCU read lock
*
* @hw: the hardware this frame came in on
* @sta: the station the frame was received from, or %NULL
* @skb: the buffer to receive, owned by mac80211 after this call
* @list: the destination list
*/
void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct list_head *list);
/**
* ieee80211_rx_napi - receive frame from NAPI context
*

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@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ enum ieee80211_rx_flags {
};
struct ieee80211_rx_data {
struct napi_struct *napi;
struct list_head *list;
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct ieee80211_local *local;
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;

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@ -2578,8 +2578,8 @@ static void ieee80211_deliver_skb_to_local_stack(struct sk_buff *skb,
memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
/* deliver to local stack */
if (rx->napi)
napi_gro_receive(rx->napi, skb);
if (rx->list)
list_add_tail(&skb->list, rx->list);
else
netif_receive_skb(skb);
}
@ -3869,7 +3869,6 @@ void ieee80211_release_reorder_timeout(struct sta_info *sta, int tid)
/* This is OK -- must be QoS data frame */
.security_idx = tid,
.seqno_idx = tid,
.napi = NULL, /* must be NULL to not have races */
};
struct tid_ampdu_rx *tid_agg_rx;
@ -4479,8 +4478,8 @@ static bool ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
/* deliver to local stack */
skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, fast_rx->dev);
memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb));
if (rx->napi)
napi_gro_receive(rx->napi, skb);
if (rx->list)
list_add_tail(&skb->list, rx->list);
else
netif_receive_skb(skb);
@ -4547,7 +4546,7 @@ static bool ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx,
static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
struct sk_buff *skb,
struct napi_struct *napi)
struct list_head *list)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata;
@ -4562,7 +4561,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
memset(&rx, 0, sizeof(rx));
rx.skb = skb;
rx.local = local;
rx.napi = napi;
rx.list = list;
if (ieee80211_is_data(fc) || ieee80211_is_mgmt(fc))
I802_DEBUG_INC(local->dot11ReceivedFragmentCount);
@ -4670,8 +4669,8 @@ static void __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
* This is the receive path handler. It is called by a low level driver when an
* 802.11 MPDU is received from the hardware.
*/
void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct napi_struct *napi)
void ieee80211_rx_list(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct list_head *list)
{
struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw);
struct ieee80211_rate *rate = NULL;
@ -4762,13 +4761,6 @@ void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
status->rx_flags = 0;
/*
* key references and virtual interfaces are protected using RCU
* and this requires that we are in a read-side RCU section during
* receive processing
*/
rcu_read_lock();
/*
* Frames with failed FCS/PLCP checksum are not returned,
* all other frames are returned without radiotap header
@ -4776,23 +4768,47 @@ void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
* Also, frames with less than 16 bytes are dropped.
*/
skb = ieee80211_rx_monitor(local, skb, rate);
if (!skb) {
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!skb)
return;
}
ieee80211_tpt_led_trig_rx(local,
((struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data)->frame_control,
skb->len);
__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(hw, pubsta, skb, napi);
rcu_read_unlock();
__ieee80211_rx_handle_packet(hw, pubsta, skb, list);
return;
drop:
kfree_skb(skb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_rx_list);
void ieee80211_rx_napi(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_sta *pubsta,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct napi_struct *napi)
{
struct sk_buff *tmp;
LIST_HEAD(list);
/*
* key references and virtual interfaces are protected using RCU
* and this requires that we are in a read-side RCU section during
* receive processing
*/
rcu_read_lock();
ieee80211_rx_list(hw, pubsta, skb, &list);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!napi) {
netif_receive_skb_list(&list);
return;
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, tmp, &list, list) {
skb_list_del_init(skb);
napi_gro_receive(napi, skb);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_rx_napi);
/* This is a version of the rx handler that can be called from hard irq