From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
To: Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@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>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next 00/14] xdp_flow: Flow offload to XDP
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:07:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190814170715.GJ2820@mini-arch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190813120558.6151-1-toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com>
On 08/13, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> * Implementation
>
> xdp_flow makes use of UMH to load an eBPF program for XDP, similar to
> bpfilter. The difference is that xdp_flow does not generate the eBPF
> program dynamically but a prebuilt program is embedded in UMH. This is
> mainly because flow insertion is considerably frequent. If we generate
> and load an eBPF program on each insertion of a flow, the latency of the
> first packet of ping in above test will incease, which I want to avoid.
Can this be instead implemented with a new hook that will be called
for TC events? This hook can write to perf event buffer and control
plane will insert/remove/modify flow tables in the BPF maps (contol
plane will also install xdp program).
Why do we need UMH? What am I missing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-14 17:07 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 [this message]
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
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