From: Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com>
To: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next 00/14] xdp_flow: Flow offload to XDP
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:38:45 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbbfa7da-1a14-5edc-cc0d-7f6e5d97384a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDO+SYC4sPw-7iDkFMCD=kf2UnTW2qc0m6Kgz41zLmNNxQ+Ww@mail.gmail.com>
On 2019/08/16 0:46, William Tu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 5:07 AM Toshiaki Makita
> <toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is a rough PoC for an idea to offload TC flower to XDP.
>>
>>
>> * Motivation
>>
>> The purpose is to speed up software TC flower by using XDP.
>>
>> I chose TC flower because my current interest is in OVS. OVS uses TC to
>> offload flow tables to hardware, so if TC can offload flows to XDP, OVS
>> also can be offloaded to XDP.
>>
>> When TC flower filter is offloaded to XDP, the received packets are
>> handled by XDP first, and if their protocol or something is not
>> supported by the eBPF program, the program returns XDP_PASS and packets
>> are passed to upper layer TC.
>>
>> The packet processing flow will be like this when this mechanism,
>> xdp_flow, is used with OVS.
>>
>> +-------------+
>> | openvswitch |
>> | kmod |
>> +-------------+
>> ^
>> | if not match in filters (flow key or action not supported by TC)
>> +-------------+
>> | TC flower |
>> +-------------+
>> ^
>> | if not match in flow tables (flow key or action not supported by XDP)
>> +-------------+
>> | XDP prog |
>> +-------------+
>> ^
>> | incoming packets
>>
> I like this idea, some comments about the OVS AF_XDP work.
>
> Another way when using OVS AF_XDP is to serve as slow path of TC flow
> HW offload.
> For example:
>
> Userspace OVS datapath (The one used by OVS-DPDK)
> ^
> |
> +------------------------------+
> | OVS AF_XDP netdev |
> +------------------------------+
> ^
> | if not supported or not match in flow tables
> +---------------------+
> | TC HW flower |
> +---------------------+
> ^
> | incoming packets
>
> So in this case it's either TC HW flower offload, or the userspace PMD OVS.
> Both cases should be pretty fast.
>
> I think xdp_flow can also be used by OVS AF_XDP netdev, sitting between
> TC HW flower and OVS AF_XDP netdev.
> Before the XDP program sending packet to AF_XDP socket, the
> xdp_flow can execute first, and if not match, then send to AF_XDP.
> So in your patch set, implement s.t like
> bpf_redirect_map(&xsks_map, index, 0);
Thanks, the concept sounds good but this is probably difficult as long as
this is a TC offload, which is emulating TC.
If I changed the direction and implement offload in ovs-vswitchd, it would
be possible. I'll remember this optimization.
> Another thing is that at each layer we are doing its own packet parsing.
> From your graph, first parse at XDP program, then at TC flow, then at
> openvswitch kmod.
> I wonder if we can reuse some parsing result.
That would be nice if possible...
Currently I don't have any ideas to do that. Someday XDP may support more
metadata for this or HW-offload like checksum. Then we can store the information
and upper layers may be able to use that.
Toshiaki Makita
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-13 12:05 [RFC PATCH bpf-next 00/14] xdp_flow: Flow offload to XDP Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 01/14] xdp_flow: Add skeleton of XDP based TC offload driver Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 02/14] xdp_flow: Add skeleton bpf program for XDP Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 03/14] bpf: Add API to get program from id Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 04/14] xdp_flow: Attach bpf prog to XDP in kernel after UMH loaded program Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 05/14] xdp_flow: Prepare flow tables in bpf Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 06/14] xdp_flow: Add flow entry insertion/deletion logic in UMH Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 07/14] xdp_flow: Add flow handling and basic actions in bpf prog Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 08/14] xdp_flow: Implement flow replacement/deletion logic in xdp_flow kmod Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 09/14] xdp_flow: Add netdev feature for enabling TC flower offload to XDP Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 10/14] xdp_flow: Implement redirect action Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 11/14] xdp_flow: Implement vlan_push action Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 12/14] bpf, selftest: Add test for xdp_flow Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 13/14] i40e: prefetch xdp->data before running XDP prog Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-13 12:05 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 14/14] bpf, hashtab: Compare keys in long Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-14 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 00/14] xdp_flow: Flow offload to XDP Alexei Starovoitov
2019-08-14 7:33 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-15 10:59 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-14 17:07 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-08-15 10:26 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-15 15:21 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-08-15 19:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-16 1:28 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-16 18:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-17 14:01 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-19 18:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-21 8:49 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-21 18:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-16 15:59 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-08-16 16:20 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-08-16 1:09 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-16 15:35 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2019-08-17 14:10 ` Toshiaki Makita
2019-08-15 15:46 ` William Tu
2019-08-16 1:38 ` Toshiaki Makita [this message]
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