From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 0/5] bpf: Support RX/TX HW timestamp proxy.
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:17:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612001803.23341-1-kuniyu@google.com> (raw)
We have some hosts where packets come from special hardware
and are provided directly to userspace, bypassing the kernel
networking stack.
When standard socket applications are run on these hosts,
a userspace proxy is required to mediate traffic between the
hardware and the applications.
+---------+ +----------------------+
| proxy | | socket application |
+---------+ +----------------------+
^ ^ ^
userspace | | |
-----------| |-----------------------------------------------
| | | +---------------------+ | skb
| | `--->| virtual interface |<---'
kernel | | skb +---------------------+
-----------| |-----------------------------------------------
|
v
+------------+
| hardware |
+------------+
However, even though the hardware fully supports timestamping,
the HW timestamps are not directly accessible to the socket
applications because the skb is consumed/injected by the proxy.
This series extends ethtool and adds BPF kfuncs to transparently
support HW timestamp on such a setup.
Patch 1 is pure net-next patch to advertise fake timestamping
capability on virtual interfaces (e.g. ipvlan, geneve, etc).
Patch 2 is misc cleanup.
Patch 3 & 4 add kfunc to proxy RX/TX hwtstamp.
Patch 5 is selftest to demonstrate how it works.
Note the test requires this iproute2 commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2-next.git/commit/?id=c9a9f12aa619288fd3d4e16bc4b3c73b655a4efe
Kuniyuki Iwashima (5):
ethtool: Introduce ETHTOOL_MSG_TSINFO_SET for virtual interfaces.
bpf: Rename bpf_kfunc_set_tcp_reqsk to bpf_kfunc_set_sched_cls.
bpf: Add bpf_skb_set_hwtstamp().
bpf: Add kfunc to proxy TX HW Timestamp.
selftest: bpf: Add test for hwtstamp proxy.
Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml | 13 +
include/linux/filter.h | 2 +
include/linux/netdevice.h | 11 +
include/linux/skbuff.h | 13 +
include/net/tcx.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 +
.../uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink_generated.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h | 3 +-
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 13 +-
net/core/dev.c | 39 ++
net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 31 +-
net/core/filter.c | 91 ++-
net/ethtool/common.c | 4 +
net/ethtool/netlink.c | 8 +
net/ethtool/netlink.h | 1 +
net/ethtool/tsconfig.c | 7 +-
net/ethtool/tsinfo.c | 123 +++-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_kfuncs.h | 10 +
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/proxy_hwtstamp.c | 580 ++++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_tracing_net.h | 1 +
.../selftests/bpf/progs/proxy_hwtstamp.c | 234 +++++++
21 files changed, 1169 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/proxy_hwtstamp.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/proxy_hwtstamp.c
--
2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-12 0:17 Kuniyuki Iwashima [this message]
2026-06-12 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 1/5] ethtool: Introduce ETHTOOL_MSG_TSINFO_SET for virtual interfaces Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-06-12 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 2/5] bpf: Rename bpf_kfunc_set_tcp_reqsk to bpf_kfunc_set_sched_cls Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-06-12 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 3/5] bpf: Add bpf_skb_set_hwtstamp() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-06-12 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 4/5] bpf: Add kfunc to proxy TX HW Timestamp Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-06-12 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 bpf-next/net 5/5] selftest: bpf: Add test for hwtstamp proxy Kuniyuki Iwashima
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