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Cc: Jakub Kicinski
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	John Fastabend
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	Simon Horman
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	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	Ari Saha <as754m-60p5jsuXm+c@public.gmane.org>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: XDP seeking input from NIC hardware vendors
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:42:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707124245.6d95635a@redhat.com> (raw)


Would it make sense from a hardware point of view, to split the XDP
eBPF program into two stages.

 Stage-1: Filter (restricted eBPF / no-helper calls)
 Stage-2: Program

Then the HW can choose to offload stage-1 "filter", and keep the
likely more advanced stage-2 on the kernel side.  Do HW vendors see a
benefit of this approach?


The generic problem I'm trying to solve is parsing. E.g. that the
first step in every XDP program will be to parse the packet-data,
in-order to determine if this is a packet the XDP program should
process.

Actions from stage-1 "filter" program:
 - DROP (like XDP_DROP, early drop)
 - PASS (like XDP_PASS, normal netstack)
 - MATCH (call stage-2, likely carry-over opaque return code)

The MATCH action should likely carry-over an opaque return code, that
makes sense for the stage-2 program. E.g. proto id and/or data offset.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-07 10:42 Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev [this message]
2016-07-07 15:18 ` XDP seeking input from NIC hardware vendors Fastabend, John R
     [not found]   ` <D6BB30FE66EA894C9F13C9E3CDDF00F564E5FB81-5FK+k9557ZBqS6EAlXoojrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-07 16:12     ` Jakub Kicinski via iovisor-dev
2016-07-07 17:53       ` Tom Herbert via iovisor-dev
     [not found]         ` <CALx6S36BADKByJAYQLMXBx1NEDaqn6fdqsCk-OdgNo5vgHrO1Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-07 21:33           ` John Fastabend via iovisor-dev
2016-07-08  2:22     ` Alexei Starovoitov via iovisor-dev
     [not found]       ` <20160708022210.GA12244-+o4/htvd0TDFYCXBM6kdu7fOX0fSgVTm@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-08  4:05         ` John Fastabend via iovisor-dev
     [not found]           ` <577F2689.4010602-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-08  4:28             ` Alexei Starovoitov via iovisor-dev
2016-07-08 13:44         ` Jakub Kicinski via iovisor-dev
2016-07-08 15:19           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev
     [not found]             ` <20160708171943.0e1ce8d7-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-08 16:07               ` Jakub Kicinski via iovisor-dev
2016-07-08 16:45                 ` John Fastabend via iovisor-dev
     [not found]                   ` <577FD8A5.8020700-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-08 17:51                     ` Jakub Kicinski via iovisor-dev
2016-07-09 11:27                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev
2016-07-12  2:24                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
     [not found]                           ` <20160712022423.GA47757-+o4/htvd0TDFYCXBM6kdu7fOX0fSgVTm@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-12 19:13                             ` John Fastabend via iovisor-dev
     [not found]                               ` <5785413D.4050901-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-12 19:49                                 ` Jakub Kicinski via iovisor-dev
2016-07-12 20:32                                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev
     [not found]                                   ` <20160712223231.202cd122-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-26 13:31                                     ` Thomas Monjalon via iovisor-dev
2016-07-26 16:08                                       ` [iovisor-dev] " Tom Herbert
     [not found]                                         ` <CALx6S35XjCsG5EmiYBpbGk9NckQbe4VbNSGLqV7h+d16PgNGKg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-26 17:53                                           ` John Fastabend via iovisor-dev
     [not found]                                             ` <5797A381.90406-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-26 18:42                                               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer via iovisor-dev
2016-07-26 18:58                                               ` Tom Herbert via iovisor-dev

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