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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>,
	"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: don't check against device MTU in __bpf_skb_max_len
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:47:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft7jzas7.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP3RGftg2-_tBc=hGGzxjGZUq9b1amb=TiKRVHSBEyXq-A5QA@mail.gmail.com>

[ just jumping in to answer this bit: ]

> Would you happen to know what ebpf startup overhead is?
> How big a problem is having two (or more) back to back tc programs
> instead of one?

With a jit'ed BPF program and the in-kernel dispatcher code (which
avoids indirect calls), it's quite close to a native function call.

> We're running into both verifier performance scaling problems and code
> ownership issues with large programs...
>
> [btw. I understand for XDP we could only use 1 program anyway...]

Working on that! See my talk at LPC:
https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/671/

Will post a follow-up to the list once the freplace multi-attach series
lands.

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04  9:30 [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: don't check against device MTU in __bpf_skb_max_len Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-04 23:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-07 14:07   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-10 20:00     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2020-09-14 14:05       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-09-14 20:50         ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2020-09-15  8:47           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-09-16  0:12             ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2020-09-16 11:37               ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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