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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: daniel@iogearbox.net, ast@fb.com
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"David Ahern" <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf] uapi/bpf: Remove text about bpf_redirect_map() giving higher performance
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:46:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218074621.25391-1-toke@redhat.com> (raw)

The performance of bpf_redirect() is now roughly the same as that of
bpf_redirect_map(). However, David Ahern pointed out that the header file
has not been updated to reflect this, and still says that a significant
performance increase is possible when using bpf_redirect_map(). Remove this
text from the bpf_redirect_map() description, and reword the description in
bpf_redirect() slightly.

Fixes: 1d233886dd90 ("xdp: Use bulking for non-map XDP_REDIRECT and consolidate code paths")
Suggested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index f1d74a2bd234..7a526d917fb3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1045,9 +1045,9 @@ union bpf_attr {
  * 		supports redirection to the egress interface, and accepts no
  * 		flag at all.
  *
- * 		The same effect can be attained with the more generic
- * 		**bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which requires specific maps to be
- * 		used but offers better performance.
+ * 		The same effect can also be attained with the more generic
+ * 		**bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which uses a BPF map to store the
+ * 		redirect target instead of providing it directly to the helper.
  * 	Return
  * 		For XDP, the helper returns **XDP_REDIRECT** on success or
  * 		**XDP_ABORTED** on error. For other program types, the values
@@ -1610,12 +1610,6 @@ union bpf_attr {
  * 		one of the XDP program return codes up to XDP_TX, as chosen by
  * 		the caller. Any higher bits in the *flags* argument must be
  * 		unset.
- *
- * 		When used to redirect packets to net devices, this helper
- * 		provides a high performance increase over **bpf_redirect**\ ().
- * 		This is due to various implementation details of the underlying
- * 		mechanisms, one of which is the fact that **bpf_redirect_map**\
- * 		() tries to send packet as a "bulk" to the device.
  * 	Return
  * 		**XDP_REDIRECT** on success, or **XDP_ABORTED** on error.
  *
-- 
2.25.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18  7:46 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-02-18 10:33 ` [PATCH bpf] uapi/bpf: Remove text about bpf_redirect_map() giving higher performance Quentin Monnet
2020-02-18 13:00   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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