[PATCHv12 bpf-next 0/6] xdp: add a new helper for dev map multicast support

Hangbin Liu
2020-12-16T14:31:52Z

This patch is for xdp multicast support. which has been discussed before[0],
The goal is to be able to implement an OVS-like data plane in XDP, i.e.,
a software switch that can forward XDP frames to multiple ports.

To achieve this, an application needs to specify a group of interfaces
to forward a packet to. It is also common to want to exclude one or more
physical interfaces from the forwarding operation - e.g., to forward a
packet to all interfaces in the multicast group except the interface it
arrived on. While this could be done simply by adding more groups, this
quickly leads to a combinatorial explosion in the number of groups an
application has to maintain.

To avoid the combinatorial explosion, we propose to include the ability
to specify an "exclude group" as part of the forwarding operation. This
needs to be a group (instead of just a single port index), because there
may have multi interfaces you want to exclude.

Thus, the logical forwarding operation becomes a "set difference"
operation, i.e. "forward to all ports in group A that are not also in
group B". This series implements such an operation using device maps to
represent the groups. This means that the XDP program specifies two
device maps, one containing the list of netdevs to redirect to, and the
other containing the exclude list.

To achieve this, I re-implement a new helper bpf_redirect_map_multi()
to accept two maps, the forwarding map and exclude map. If user
don't want to use exclude map and just want simply stop redirecting back
to ingress device, they can use flag BPF_F_EXCLUDE_INGRESS.

The 1st patch is Jesper's run devmap xdp_prog later in bulking step.
The 2st patch add a new bpf arg to allow NULL map pointer.
The 3rd patch add the new bpf_redirect_map_multi() helper.
The 4-6 patches are for usage sample and testing purpose.

I did same perf tests with the following topo:

--------------------- ---------------------
| Host A (i40e 10G) | ---------- | eno1(i40e 10G) |
--------------------- | |
| Host B |
--------------------- | |
| Host C (i40e 10G) | ---------- | eno2(i40e 10G) |
--------------------- vlan2 | -------- |
| veth1 -- | veth0| |
| -------- |
--------------------|
On Host A:
# pktgen/pktgen_sample03_burst_single_flow.sh -i eno1 -d $dst_ip -m $dst_mac -s 64

On Host B(Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz, 128G Memory):
Use xdp_redirect_map and xdp_redirect_map_multi in samples/bpf for testing.
The veth0 in netns load dummy drop program. The forward_map max_entries in
xdp_redirect_map_multi is modify to 4.

Here is the perf result with 5.10 rc6:

The are about +/- 0.1M deviation for native testing
Version | Test | Generic | Native | Native + 2nd
5.10 rc6 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->i40e | 2.0M | 9.1M | 8.0M
5.10 rc6 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->veth | 1.7M | 11.0M | 9.7M
5.10 rc6 + patch1 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->i40e | 2.0M | 9.5M | 7.5M
5.10 rc6 + patch1 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->veth | 1.7M | 11.6M | 9.1M
5.10 rc6 + patch1-6 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->i40e | 2.0M | 9.5M | 7.5M
5.10 rc6 + patch1-6 | xdp_redirect_map i40e->veth | 1.7M | 11.6M | 9.1M
5.10 rc6 + patch1-6 | xdp_redirect_map_multi i40e->i40e | 1.7M | 7.8M | 6.4M
5.10 rc6 + patch1-6 | xdp_redirect_map_multi i40e->veth | 1.4M | 9.3M | 7.5M
5.10 rc6 + patch1-6 | xdp_redirect_map_multi i40e->i40e+veth | 1.0M | 3.2M | 2.7M

Last but not least, thanks a lot to Toke, Jesper, Jiri and Eelco for
suggestions and help on implementation.

[0] https://xdp-project.net/#Handling-multicast

v12:
Add Jesper's xdp_prog patch, rebase my works on this and latest bpf-next
Add 2nd xdp_prog test on the sample and selftests.

v11:
Fix bpf_redirect_map_multi() helper description typo.
Add loop limit for devmap_get_next_obj() and dev_map_redirect_multi().

v10:
Rebase the code to latest bpf-next.
Update helper bpf_xdp_redirect_map_multi()
- No need to check map pointer as we will do the check in verifier.

v9:
Update helper bpf_xdp_redirect_map_multi()
- Use ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR_OR_NULL for helper arg2

v8:
a) Update function dev_in_exclude_map():
- remove duplicate ex_map map_type check in
- lookup the element in dev map by obj dev index directly instead
of looping all the map

v7:
a) Fix helper flag check
b) Limit the *ex_map* to use DEVMAP_HASH only and update function
dev_in_exclude_map() to get better performance.

v6: converted helper return types from int to long

v5:
a) Check devmap_get_next_key() return value.
b) Pass through flags to __bpf_tx_xdp_map() instead of bool value.
c) In function dev_map_enqueue_multi(), consume xdpf for the last
obj instead of the first on.
d) Update helper description and code comments to explain that we
use NULL target value to distinguish multicast and unicast
forwarding.
e) Update memory model, memory id and frame_sz in xdpf_clone().
f) Split the tests from sample and add a bpf kernel selftest patch.

v4: Fix bpf_xdp_redirect_map_multi_proto arg2_type typo

v3: Based on Toke's suggestion, do the following update
a) Update bpf_redirect_map_multi() description in bpf.h.
b) Fix exclude_ifindex checking order in dev_in_exclude_map().
c) Fix one more xdpf clone in dev_map_enqueue_multi().
d) Go find next one in dev_map_enqueue_multi() if the interface is not
able to forward instead of abort the whole loop.
e) Remove READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for ex_map.

v2: Add new syscall bpf_xdp_redirect_map_multi() which could accept
include/exclude maps directly.

Hangbin Liu (5):
bpf: add a new bpf argument type ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR_OR_NULL
xdp: add a new helper for dev map multicast support
sample/bpf: add xdp_redirect_map_multicast test
selftests/bpf: Add verifier tests for bpf arg
ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR_OR_NULL
selftests/bpf: add xdp_redirect_multi test

Jesper Dangaard Brouer (1):
bpf: run devmap xdp_prog on flush instead of bulk enqueue

include/linux/bpf.h | 21 ++
include/linux/filter.h | 1 +
include/net/xdp.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 27 ++
kernel/bpf/devmap.c | 236 +++++++++++---
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 16 +-
net/core/filter.c | 118 ++++++-
net/core/xdp.c | 29 ++
samples/bpf/Makefile | 3 +
samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_kern.c | 96 ++++++
samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_user.c | 301 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 27 ++
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +-
.../bpf/progs/xdp_redirect_multi_kern.c | 120 +++++++
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_verifier.c | 22 +-
.../selftests/bpf/test_xdp_redirect_multi.sh | 208 ++++++++++++
.../testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/map_ptr.c | 70 ++++
.../selftests/bpf/xdp_redirect_multi.c | 258 +++++++++++++++
18 files changed, 1509 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_kern.c
create mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_user.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_redirect_multi_kern.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_xdp_redirect_multi.sh
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_redirect_multi.c

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