From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-team <kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Introduce bpf_timer
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 10:48:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kegbqkd.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602020030.igrx5jp45tocekvy@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> writes:
>> > In general the garbage collection in any form doesn't scale.
>> > The conntrack logic doesn't need it. The cillium conntrack is a great
>> > example of how to implement a conntrack without GC.
>>
>> That is simply not a conntrack. We expire connections based on
>> its time, not based on the size of the map where it residents.
>
> Sounds like your goal is to replicate existing kernel conntrack
> as bpf program by doing exactly the same algorithm and repeating
> the same mistakes. Then add kernel conntrack functions to allow list
> of kfuncs (unstable helpers) and call them from your bpf progs.
FYI, we're working on exactly this (exposing kernel conntrack to BPF).
Hoping to have something to show for our efforts before too long, but
it's still in a bit of an early stage...
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-02 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-20 18:55 [RFC PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Introduce bpf_timer Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-21 14:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-21 21:37 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-23 16:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-24 8:45 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-05-25 3:16 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-25 4:59 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-25 18:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-25 19:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-25 19:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-25 21:09 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-25 22:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-26 15:34 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-26 16:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-26 18:25 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-30 6:36 ` Cong Wang
2021-06-02 2:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-06-02 8:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2021-06-02 17:54 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2021-06-02 18:13 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2021-06-02 18:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-06-02 18:30 ` Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
2021-06-02 18:46 ` John Fastabend
2021-05-23 11:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-05-23 15:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-24 8:42 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-05-24 14:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-24 17:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-24 18:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-05-24 18:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-05-24 11:49 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-05-24 14:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-24 19:13 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-05-25 5:22 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-25 19:47 ` Andrii Nakryiko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-01 4:26 [RFC Patch bpf-next] bpf: introduce bpf timer Cong Wang
2021-04-01 6:38 ` Song Liu
2021-04-01 17:28 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-01 20:17 ` Song Liu
2021-04-02 17:34 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-02 17:57 ` Song Liu
2021-04-02 19:08 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-02 19:43 ` Song Liu
2021-04-02 20:57 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-02 23:31 ` Song Liu
2021-04-05 23:49 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-06 1:07 ` Song Liu
2021-04-06 1:24 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-06 6:17 ` Song Liu
2021-04-06 16:48 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-06 23:36 ` Song Liu
2021-04-08 22:45 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-02 19:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-02 21:24 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-02 23:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-06 0:36 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-12 23:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-15 4:02 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-15 4:25 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-15 15:51 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-26 23:00 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-26 23:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-26 23:37 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-27 2:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-04-27 11:52 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-04-27 16:36 ` Cong Wang
2021-04-27 18:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-05-09 5:37 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-10 20:55 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-11 21:29 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-12 22:56 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-11 5:05 ` Joe Stringer
2021-05-11 21:08 ` Cong Wang
2021-05-12 22:43 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-13 18:45 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2021-05-14 2:53 ` Cong Wang
2021-08-11 21:03 ` Joe Stringer
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