net: add a hardware buffer management helper API

This basic implementation allows to share code between driver using
hardware buffer management. As the code is hardware agnostic, there is
few helpers, most of the optimization brought by the an HW BM has to be
done at driver level.

Tested-by: Sebastian Careba <nitroshift@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

4 files changed, 119 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/hwbm.h b/include/net/hwbm.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47d08662501b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/hwbm.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#ifndef _HWBM_H
+#define _HWBM_H
+
+struct hwbm_pool {
+	/* Capacity of the pool */
+	int size;
+	/* Size of the buffers managed */
+	int frag_size;
+	/* Number of buffers currently used by this pool */
+	int buf_num;
+	/* constructor called during alocation */
+	int (*construct)(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, void *buf);
+	/* protect acces to the buffer counter*/
+	spinlock_t lock;
+	/* private data */
+	void *priv;
+};
+#ifdef CONFIG_HWBM
+void hwbm_buf_free(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, void *buf);
+int hwbm_pool_refill(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, gfp_t gfp);
+int hwbm_pool_add(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, unsigned int buf_num, gfp_t gfp);
+#else
+void hwbm_buf_free(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, void *buf) {}
+int hwbm_pool_refill(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, gfp_t gfp) { return 0; }
+int hwbm_pool_add(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, unsigned int buf_num, gfp_t gfp)
+{ return 0; }
+#endif /* CONFIG_HWBM */
+#endif /* _HWBM_H */
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index 10640d5f8bee..e13449870d06 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ config XPS
 	depends on SMP
 	default y
 
+config HWBM
+       bool
+
 config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
 	bool
 	default n
diff --git a/net/core/Makefile b/net/core/Makefile
index 014422e2561f..d6508c2ddca5 100644
--- a/net/core/Makefile
+++ b/net/core/Makefile
@@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO) += netprio_cgroup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_CLASSID) += netclassid_cgroup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_LWTUNNEL) += lwtunnel.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DST_CACHE) += dst_cache.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HWBM) += hwbm.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK) += devlink.o
diff --git a/net/core/hwbm.c b/net/core/hwbm.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..941c28486896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/core/hwbm.c
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/* Support for hardware buffer manager.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Marvell
+ *
+ * Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/printk.h>
+#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <net/hwbm.h>
+
+void hwbm_buf_free(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, void *buf)
+{
+	if (likely(bm_pool->frag_size <= PAGE_SIZE))
+		skb_free_frag(buf);
+	else
+		kfree(buf);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwbm_buf_free);
+
+/* Refill processing for HW buffer management */
+int hwbm_pool_refill(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	int frag_size = bm_pool->frag_size;
+	void *buf;
+
+	if (likely(frag_size <= PAGE_SIZE))
+		buf = netdev_alloc_frag(frag_size);
+	else
+		buf = kmalloc(frag_size, gfp);
+
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	if (bm_pool->construct)
+		if (bm_pool->construct(bm_pool, buf)) {
+			hwbm_buf_free(bm_pool, buf);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwbm_pool_refill);
+
+int hwbm_pool_add(struct hwbm_pool *bm_pool, unsigned int buf_num, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	int err, i;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
+	if (bm_pool->buf_num == bm_pool->size) {
+		pr_warn("pool already filled\n");
+		return bm_pool->buf_num;
+	}
+
+	if (buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num > bm_pool->size) {
+		pr_warn("cannot allocate %d buffers for pool\n",
+			buf_num);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if ((buf_num + bm_pool->buf_num) < bm_pool->buf_num) {
+		pr_warn("Adding %d buffers to the %d current buffers will overflow\n",
+			buf_num,  bm_pool->buf_num);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < buf_num; i++) {
+		err = hwbm_pool_refill(bm_pool, gfp);
+		if (err < 0)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	/* Update BM driver with number of buffers added to pool */
+	bm_pool->buf_num += i;
+
+	pr_debug("hwpm pool: %d of %d buffers added\n", i, buf_num);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bm_pool->lock, flags);
+
+	return i;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwbm_pool_add);