xsk: Respect device's headroom and tailroom on generic xmit path
xsk_generic_xmit() allocates a new skb and then queues it for xmitting. The size of new skb's headroom is desc->len, so it comes to the driver/device with no reserved headroom and/or tailroom. Lots of drivers need some headroom (and sometimes tailroom) to prepend (and/or append) some headers or data, e.g. CPU tags, device-specific headers/descriptors (LSO, TLS etc.), and if case of no available space skb_cow_head() will reallocate the skb. Reallocations are unwanted on fast-path, especially when it comes to XDP, so generic XSK xmit should reserve the spaces declared in dev->needed_headroom and dev->needed tailroom to avoid them. Note on max(NET_SKB_PAD, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(dev->needed_headroom)): Usually, output functions reserve LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev), which consists of dev->hard_header_len + dev->needed_headroom, aligned by 16. However, on XSK xmit hard header is already here in the chunk, so hard_header_len is not needed. But it'd still be better to align data up to cacheline, while reserving no less than driver requests for headroom. NET_SKB_PAD here is to double-insure there will be no reallocations even when the driver advertises no needed_headroom, but in fact need it (not so rare case). Fixes: 35fcde7f ("xsk: support for Tx") Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210218204908.5455-5-alobakin@pm.me
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