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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	iovisor-dev <iovisor-dev@lists.iovisor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] bpf/verifier: track liveness for pruning
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:12:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <599371EA.20605@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f40d3d54-c88a-7348-99ca-66db8075a8d5@solarflare.com>

On 08/15/2017 09:34 PM, Edward Cree wrote:
> State of a register doesn't matter if it wasn't read in reaching an exit;
>   a write screens off all reads downstream of it from all explored_states
>   upstream of it.
> This allows us to prune many more branches; here are some processed insn
>   counts for some Cilium programs:
> Program                  before  after
> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o       6515   3361
> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o       8976   5176
> bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o     2960   1137
> bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o  95412  48537
> bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o  141706  78718
> bpf_netdev.o              24251  17995
> bpf_overlay.o             10999   9385
>
> The runtime is also improved; here are 'time' results in ms:
> Program                  before  after
> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L3.o         24      6
> bpf_lb_opt_-DLB_L4.o         26     11
> bpf_lb_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o       11      2
> bpf_lxc_opt_-DDROP_ALL.o   1288    139
> bpf_lxc_opt_-DUNKNOWN.o    1768    234
> bpf_netdev.o                 62     31
> bpf_overlay.o                15     13
>
> Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-15 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-15 19:34 [PATCH v3 net-next] bpf/verifier: track liveness for pruning Edward Cree
2017-08-15 22:12 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-08-15 23:32   ` David Miller
2017-08-18  3:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-08-18 14:16   ` Edward Cree
2017-08-18 23:37     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-08-21 18:36       ` Edward Cree
2017-08-21 20:27         ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-21 20:44           ` Edward Cree
2017-08-21 21:00             ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-21 21:23               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-08-21 20:24     ` Edward Cree
2017-08-21 21:18       ` Alexei Starovoitov

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