From: Jason Xing For afxdp, the return value of sendto() syscall doesn't reflect how many descs handled in the kernel. One of use cases is that when user-space application tries to know the number of transmitted skbs and then decides if it continues to send, say, is it stopped due to max tx budget? The following formular can be used after sending to learn how many skbs/descs the kernel takes care of: tx_queue.consumers_before - tx_queue.consumers_after Prior to the current patch, in non-zc mode, the consumer of tx queue is not immediately updated at the end of each sendto syscall when error occurs, which leads to the consumer value out-of-dated from the perspective of user space. So this patch requires store operation to pass the cached value to the shared value to handle the problem. More than those explicit errors appearing in the while() loop in __xsk_generic_xmit(), there are a few possible error cases that might be neglected in the following call trace: __xsk_generic_xmit() xskq_cons_peek_desc() xskq_cons_read_desc() xskq_cons_is_valid_desc() It will also cause the premature exit in the while() loop even if not all the descs are consumed. Based on the above analysis, using @sent_frame could cover all the possible cases where it might lead to out-of-dated global state of consumer after finishing __xsk_generic_xmit(). The patch also adds a common helper __xsk_tx_release() to keep align with the zc mode usage in xsk_tx_release(). Signed-off-by: Jason Xing Acked-by: Maciej Fijalkowski Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev --- v5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250627085745.53173-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com/ 1. add acked-by tags v4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250625101014.45066-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com/ 1. use the common helper 2. keep align with the zc mode usage in xsk_tx_release() v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250623073129.23290-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com/ 1. use xskq_has_descs helper. 2. add selftest V2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250619093641.70700-1-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com/ 1. filter out those good cases because only those that return error need updates. --- net/xdp/xsk.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk.c b/net/xdp/xsk.c index 72c000c0ae5f..bd61b0bc9c24 100644 --- a/net/xdp/xsk.c +++ b/net/xdp/xsk.c @@ -300,6 +300,13 @@ static bool xsk_tx_writeable(struct xdp_sock *xs) return true; } +static void __xsk_tx_release(struct xdp_sock *xs) +{ + __xskq_cons_release(xs->tx); + if (xsk_tx_writeable(xs)) + xs->sk.sk_write_space(&xs->sk); +} + static bool xsk_is_bound(struct xdp_sock *xs) { if (READ_ONCE(xs->state) == XSK_BOUND) { @@ -407,11 +414,8 @@ void xsk_tx_release(struct xsk_buff_pool *pool) struct xdp_sock *xs; rcu_read_lock(); - list_for_each_entry_rcu(xs, &pool->xsk_tx_list, tx_list) { - __xskq_cons_release(xs->tx); - if (xsk_tx_writeable(xs)) - xs->sk.sk_write_space(&xs->sk); - } + list_for_each_entry_rcu(xs, &pool->xsk_tx_list, tx_list) + __xsk_tx_release(xs); rcu_read_unlock(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(xsk_tx_release); @@ -858,8 +862,7 @@ static int __xsk_generic_xmit(struct sock *sk) out: if (sent_frame) - if (xsk_tx_writeable(xs)) - sk->sk_write_space(sk); + __xsk_tx_release(xs); mutex_unlock(&xs->mutex); return err; -- 2.41.3