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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, jhs@mojatatu.com,
	xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com,
	edumazet@google.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
	willemb@google.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 2/2] net: core: introduce mini_Qdisc and eliminate usage of tp->q for clsact fastpath
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:30:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171101103052.GE1977@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59F9A0FE.2040608@iogearbox.net>

Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:25:02AM CET, daniel@iogearbox.net wrote:
>On 11/01/2017 03:12 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> > From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>[...]
>> I don't think it's great, but I don't have any suggestions on
>> how to avoid it, so I'm not objecting. Just disappointed that
>> you keep adding stuff to tc and messing with sw fast path only to
>> make parity with some obscure hw feature.
>
>tc became a sink for that over time.

Block sharing is not only useful for offloads. But I understand.

>
>> If it keeps going like this we'd need to come up with some new fast
>> hook for clsbpf in ingress/egress paths. We use it for
>> every packet, so extra loads are not great.
>> I guess they should be cache hits, but will take extra cache line.
>> All of the bugs in tc logic recently are not comforting either.
>
>+1

I don't see any effect of tc changes on clsbpf ingress/egress since
clsact was introduced. Could you point it out?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 15:12 [patch net-next v3 0/2] net: core: introduce mini_Qdisc and eliminate usage of tp->q for clsact fastpath Jiri Pirko
2017-10-31 15:12 ` [patch net-next v3 1/2] net: sched: introduce chain_head_change callback Jiri Pirko
2017-10-31 15:12 ` [patch net-next v3 2/2] net: core: introduce mini_Qdisc and eliminate usage of tp->q for clsact fastpath Jiri Pirko
2017-11-01  2:12   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-11-01  8:18     ` Jiri Pirko
2017-11-01 16:11       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-11-02 11:27         ` Jiri Pirko
2017-11-01 10:25     ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-11-01 10:30       ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-11-03  1:24 ` [patch net-next v3 0/2] " David Miller
2017-11-03  6:57   ` Jiri Pirko

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