Re: [PATCH iproute2/master 00/11] bpf: pass ifindex for bpf offload

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:11:57 -0800
Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This series allows us to pass ifindex automatically when we
> set up TC cls_bpf or XDP offload.  There is a fair bit of
> refactoring to separate the parse and load stages of lib/bpf.c.
> In case of TC the skip_sw flag may come after the program
> arguments (e.g. "bpf obj prog.o da skip_sw"), so we can't
> just load the program as we parse the arguments.  Note that
> this impacts only loading of the program, all other supported
> methods of finding a program (pinned, bytecode, bytefile-file)
> are handled as previously, the load call will do nothing for
> them.
> 
> To simplify the implementation f_bpf and m_bpf will no longer
> allow specifying programs multiple times.  Device ifindex is 
> also resolved before running filter-specific code.
> 
> 
> Jakub Kicinski (11):
>   bpf: pass program type in struct bpf_cfg_in
>   bpf: keep parsed program mode in struct bpf_cfg_in
>   bpf: allocate opcode table in struct bpf_cfg_in
>   bpf: split parse from program loading
>   bpf: rename bpf_parse_common() to bpf_parse_and_load_common()
>   bpf: expose bpf_parse_common() and bpf_load_common()
>   bpf: allow loading programs for a specific ifindex
>   {f,m}_bpf: don't allow specifying multiple bpf programs
>   tc_filter: resolve device name before parsing filter
>   f_bpf: communicate ifindex for eBPF offload
>   iplink: communicate ifindex for xdp offload
> 
>  include/bpf_util.h    |  25 +++++++-
>  ip/iplink.c           |   4 +-
>  ip/iplink_xdp.c       |  13 ++++-
>  ip/iproute_lwtunnel.c |   3 +-
>  ip/xdp.h              |   4 +-
>  lib/bpf.c             | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  tc/f_bpf.c            |  18 +++++-
>  tc/m_bpf.c            |   6 +-
>  tc/tc_filter.c        |  50 ++++++++--------
>  9 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
> 


Looks good, applied. Thanks Jakub