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chao an
8a63d29c6e net/devif_poll: optimize device buffer alloc in txpoll 
Allocate the device buffer only if the protocol really need to send data.
not all protocols require the driver to prepare additional iob before
sending, especially UDP, each iob reserves l2/l3 header in advance
after prepare write buffer, net device could reuse this entry to send directly

Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao@xiaomi.com>
 2023-01-13 16:41:10 +08:00
Xiang Xiao
d5689e070b net/arp: Remove nuttx/net/arp.h 
1.move ARPHRD_ETHER to netinet/arp.h
1.move arp_entry_s to net/arp/arp.h
2.move arp_input to nuttx/net/netdev.h

Signed-off-by: Xiang Xiao <xiaoxiang@xiaomi.com>
 2022-12-16 22:10:59 +02:00
chao an
34d2cde8a8 net/l2/l3/l4: add support of iob offload 
1. Add new config CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE to isolation of l2 stack,
   which will benefit l3(IP) layer for multi-MAC(l2) implementation,
   especially in some NICs such as celluler net driver.

new configuration options: CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE

CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE will reserved l2 buffer header size of
network buffer to isolate the L2/L3 (MAC/IP) data on network layer,
which will be beneficial to L3 network layer protocol transparent
transmission and forwarding

------------------------------------------------------------
Layout of frist iob entry:

        iob_data (aligned by CONFIG_IOB_ALIGNMENT)
            |
            |                  io_offset(CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE)
            |                                |
            -------------------------------------------------
      iob   |            Reserved            |    io_len    |
            -------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------
Layout of different NICs implementation:

        iob_data (aligned by CONFIG_IOB_ALIGNMENT)
            |
            |                 io_offset(CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE)
            |                                |
            -------------------------------------------------
 Ethernet   |       Reserved    | ETH_HDRLEN |    io_len    |
            ---------------------------------|---------------
 8021Q      |   Reserved  | ETH_8021Q_HDRLEN |    io_len    |
            ---------------------------------|---------------
 ipforward  |            Reserved            |    io_len    |
            -------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------

2. Support iob offload to l2 driver to avoid unnecessary memory copy

Support send/receive iob vectors directly between the NICs and l3/l4
stack to avoid unnecessary memory copies, especially on hardware that
supports Scatter/gather, which can greatly improve performance.

new interface to support iob offload:

  ------------------------------------------
  |    IOB version     |     original      |
  |----------------------------------------|
  |  devif_iob_poll()  |   devif_poll()    |
  |       ...          |       ...         |
  ------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------

1> NIC hardware support Scatter/gather transfer

TX:

                tcp_poll()/udp_poll()/pkt_poll()/...(l3|l4)
                           /              \
                          /                \
devif_poll_[l3|l4]_connections()     devif_iob_send() (nocopy:udp/icmp/...)
           /                                   \      (copy:tcp)
          /                                     \
  devif_iob_poll("NIC"_txpoll)                callback() // "NIC"_txpoll
                                                  |
                            dev->d_iob:           |
                                                ---------------         ---------------
                             io_data       iob1 |  |          |    iob3 |  |          |
                                    \           ---------------         ---------------
                                  ---------------  |       --------------- |
                             iob0 |  |          |  |  iob2 |  |          | |
                                  ---------------  |       --------------- |
                                     \             |          /           /
                                        \          |       /           /
                                   ----------------------------------------------
                    NICs io vector |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
                                   ----------------------------------------------

RX:

  [tcp|udp|icmp|...]ipv[4|6]_data_handler()(iob_concat/append to readahead)
                    |
                    |
      [tcp|udp|icmp|...]_ipv[4|6]_in()/...
                    |
                    |
          pkt/ipv[4/6]_input()/...
                    |
                    |
     NICs io vector receive(iov_base to each iobs)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

2> CONFIG_IOB_BUFSIZE is greater than MTU:

TX:

"(CONFIG_IOB_BUFSIZE) > (MAX_NETDEV_PKTSIZE + CONFIG_NET_GUARDSIZE + CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE)"

                tcp_poll()/udp_poll()/pkt_poll()/...(l3|l4)
                           /              \
                          /                \
devif_poll_[l3|l4]_connections()     devif_iob_send() (nocopy:udp/icmp/...)
           /                                   \      (copy:tcp)
          /                                     \
  devif_iob_poll("NIC"_txpoll)                callback() // "NIC"_txpoll
                                                  |
                                             "NIC"_send()
                          (dev->d_iob->io_data[CONFIG_NET_LL_GUARDSIZE - NET_LL_HDRLEN(dev)])

RX:

  [tcp|udp|icmp|...]ipv[4|6]_data_handler()(iob_concat/append to readahead)
                    |
                    |
      [tcp|udp|icmp|...]_ipv[4|6]_in()/...
                    |
                    |
          pkt/ipv[4/6]_input()/...
                    |
                    |
     NICs io vector receive(iov_base to io_data)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

3> Compatible with all old flat buffer NICs

TX:
                tcp_poll()/udp_poll()/pkt_poll()/...(l3|l4)
                           /              \
                          /                \
devif_poll_[l3|l4]_connections()     devif_iob_send() (nocopy:udp/icmp/...)
           /                                   \      (copy:tcp)
          /                                     \
  devif_iob_poll(devif_poll_callback())  devif_poll_callback() /* new interface, gather iobs to flat buffer */
       /                                           \
      /                                             \
 devif_poll("NIC"_txpoll)                     "NIC"_send()(dev->d_buf)

RX:

  [tcp|udp|icmp|...]ipv[4|6]_data_handler()(iob_concat/append to readahead)
                    |
                    |
      [tcp|udp|icmp|...]_ipv[4|6]_in()/...
                    |
                    |
               netdev_input()  /* new interface, Scatter/gather flat/iob buffer */
                    |
                    |
          pkt/ipv[4|6]_input()/...
                    |
                    |
    NICs io vector receive(Orignal flat buffer)

3. Iperf passthrough on NuttX simulator:

  -------------------------------------------------
  |  Protocol      | Server | Client |            |
  |-----------------------------------------------|
  |  TCP           |  813   |   834  |  Mbits/sec |
  |  TCP(Offload)  | 1720   |  1100  |  Mbits/sec |
  |  UDP           |   22   |   757  |  Mbits/sec |
  |  UDP(Offload)  |   25   |  1250  |  Mbits/sec |
  -------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao@xiaomi.com>
 2022-12-03 11:47:04 +08:00
chao an
a8d3286258 net: move device buffer define to common header 
Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao@xiaomi.com>
 2022-10-28 00:32:16 -04:00
Petro Karashchenko
08043fb5bc net: unify FAR keyword usage for all net buffer memory mapped buffers 
Signed-off-by: Petro Karashchenko <petro.karashchenko@gmail.com>
 2022-01-20 01:42:56 +08:00
Gregory Nutt
79256573e1 net: network drver now retains Ethernet MAC address in a union so that other link layer addresses may be used in a MULTILINK environment. 2017-04-22 11:10:30 -06:00
Gregory Nutt
b0ea870bcc Remove some empty code section comments 2016-02-25 18:34:36 -06:00
Gregory Nutt
5a441ce03b Networking: Misck IPv6 detanglement 2015-01-15 12:19:44 -06:00
Gregory Nutt
25d787ff12 Remove use of NET_LL_HDRLEN from net/arp logic. Use ETH_HDRLEN instead 2014-11-15 09:13:50 -06:00
Gregory Nutt
1a7e1fb93b arp_format.c: Move the logic that formats an ARP packet into a separate file where it can be re-used. 2014-08-18 12:37:40 -06:00