From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
To: "brouer@redhat.com" <brouer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Resource management for ndo_xdp_xmit (Was: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 00:18:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4eb9dd1c7aaa3215ade8d3d17f397588a519ca3.camel@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71c687209afb1268fdb5dc4aabbab9ecf6c2aa37.camel@mellanox.com>
On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 15:17 -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 19:08 +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> >
> > So
> > 1) on dev_map_update_elem() we will call
> > dev->dev->ndo_bpf() to notify the device on the intention to
> > start/stop
> > redirect, and wait for it to create/destroy the HW resources
> > before/after actually updating the map
> >
>
> silly me, dev_map_update_elem must be atomic, we can't hook driver
> resource allocation to it, it must come as a separate request
> (syscall)
> from user space to request to create XDP redirect resources.
>
Well, it is possible to render dev_map_update_elem non-atomic and fail
BPF programs who try to update it in the verifier
check_map_func_compatibility.
if you know of any case where devmap needs to be updated from the BPF
program please let me know.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-09 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-31 11:40 [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames Toshiaki Makita
2019-01-31 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-31 17:45 ` David Miller
2019-01-31 20:15 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-01 1:53 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-02-02 21:27 ` David Ahern
2019-02-04 11:53 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-05 3:13 ` David Ahern
2019-02-06 0:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-06 13:48 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-06 15:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-07 7:48 ` Resource management for ndo_xdp_xmit (Was: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-02-07 19:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-08 16:55 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-08 22:49 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-08 23:17 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-02-09 0:18 ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]
2019-02-09 2:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-02-09 16:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-09 16:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-08 16:02 ` [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-04-18 14:24 ` Stats for XDP actions (was: Re: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames) Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-04-21 0:16 ` Stats for XDP actions David Ahern
2019-06-20 20:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-06-21 0:42 ` David Ahern
2019-06-21 13:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-02-04 4:18 ` [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames David Miller
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