From 9eb95228a74163e26d338913a5d61e571ea45307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Wei Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:22:50 -0800 Subject: netdevsim: forward skbs from one connected port to another Forward skbs sent from one netdevsim port to its connected netdevsim port using dev_forward_skb, in a spirit similar to veth. Add a tx_dropped variable to struct netdevsim, tracking the number of skbs that could not be forwarded using dev_forward_skb(). The xmit() function accessing the peer ptr is protected by an RCU read critical section. The rcu_read_lock() is functionally redundant as since v5.0 all softirqs are implicitly RCU read critical sections; but it is useful for human readers. If another CPU is concurrently in nsim_destroy(), then it will first set the peer ptr to NULL. This does not affect any existing readers that dereferenced a non-NULL peer. Then, in unregister_netdevice(), there is a synchronize_rcu() before the netdev is actually unregistered and freed. This ensures that any readers i.e. xmit() that got a non-NULL peer will complete before the netdev is freed. Any readers after the RCU_INIT_POINTER() but before synchronize_rcu() will dereference NULL, making it safe. The codepath to nsim_destroy() and nsim_create() takes both the newly added nsim_dev_list_lock and rtnl_lock. This makes it safe with concurrent calls to linking two netdevsims together. Signed-off-by: David Wei Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h index c8b45b0d955e..553c4b9b4f63 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct netdevsim { u64 tx_packets; u64 tx_bytes; + u64 tx_dropped; struct u64_stats_sync syncp; struct nsim_bus_dev *nsim_bus_dev; -- cgit v1.2.3