From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] xdp: Use bulking for non-map XDP_REDIRECT
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:57:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a76vxq29.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+HfNhO9Mn-hzysEfri3hAH29HXiBWDZE1XUVhOj1UFbBrp4w@mail.gmail.com>
Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 16:30, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com> writes:
>>
> [...]
>> >
>> > After these changes, does the noinline (commit 47b123ed9e99 ("xdp:
>> > split code for map vs non-map redirect")) still make sense?
>>
>> Hmm, good question. The two code paths are certainly close to one
>> another; and I guess they could be consolidated further.
>>
>> The best case would be if we had a way to lookup the ifindex directly in
>> the helper. Do you know if there's a way to get the current net
>> namespace from the helper? Can we use current->nsproxy->net_ns in that
>> context?
>>
>
> Nope, interrupt context. :-( Another (ugly) way is adding a netns
> member to the bpf_redirect_info, that is populated by the driver
> (driver changes everywhere -- ick). So no.
Yup, that's what I thought. OK, too bad; I'll see what other
consolidation I can do with the current code, then.
> (And *if* one would go the route of changing all drivers, I think the
> percpu bpf_redirect_info should be replaced a by a context that is
> passed from the driver to the XDP program execution and
> xdp_do_redirect/flush. But that's a much bigger patch. :-))
Yeah, let's leave that until the next time we figure out we have to
change all the drivers, then ;)
-Toke
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-10 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-10 14:22 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] xdp: Introduce " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 14:22 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] xdp: Move devmap bulk queue into struct net_device Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 15:03 ` Björn Töpel
2020-01-10 15:26 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 16:08 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-01-10 22:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 22:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2020-01-10 23:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 14:22 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] xdp: Use bulking for non-map XDP_REDIRECT Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 15:15 ` Björn Töpel
2020-01-10 15:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-10 15:54 ` Björn Töpel
2020-01-10 15:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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