From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Cc: "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Neal Cardwell" <ncardwell@google.com>,
"Willem de Bruijn" <willemb@google.com>,
"Tenzin Ukyab" <ukyab@berkeley.edu>,
"Clément Léger" <cleger@meta.com>,
"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 7/7] selftest: bpf: Add test for bpf_tcp_ops.{enqueue,dequeue}_rcvq().
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:50:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arGYdL3r6NLN0N6R@devvm7509.cco0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260920195633.3033620-8-kuniyu@google.com>
On 09/20, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> The test is roughly divided into two stages, and the sequence
> is as follows:
>
> I) Setup
>
> 1. Attach two BPF programs to a cgroup
> 2. Establish a TCP connection (@client <-> @child) within the cgroup
> 3. Enable BPF_SOCK_OPS_RCVQ_CB_FLAG on @child via setsockopt()
>
> II) RPC frame exchange in various patterns
>
> 4. Send a partial RPC descriptor from @client to @child
> 5. Verify that epoll does NOT wake up @child
> 6. Send the remaining data of the RPC frame
> 7. Verify that epoll finally wakes up @child
>
> During setup, two BPF programs are attached to simulate
> a real-world scenario; one is bpf_tcp_ops and the other is
> CGROUP_SOCKOPT.
>
> While the bpf_tcp_ops prog handles the dynamic adjustment of
> sk->sk_rcvlowat, the CGROUP_SOCKOPT prog is used to enable
> the TCP AutoLOWAT feature via userspace setsockopt() using
> pseudo options:
>
> #define SOL_BPF 0xdeadbeef
> #define BPF_TCP_AUTOLOWAT 0x8badf00d
>
> setsockopt(fd, SOL_BPF, BPF_TCP_AUTOLOWAT, &(int){1}, sizeof(int));
>
> This reflects a common production use case where an application
> decides to start parsing RPC frames only at a certain point in
> the stream (e.g., after HTTP Upgrade), rather than immediately
> after TCP 3WHS (BPF_SOCK_OPS_PASSIVE_ESTABLISHED_CB, etc).
>
> When BPF_TCP_AUTOLOWAT is enabled, the BPF prog sets
> BPF_SOCK_OPS_RCVQ_CB_FLAG and initializes sk_local_storage
> for two sequence numbers to manage its state.
>
> Then, for the RPC frame exchange, this test uses a simple format
> defined as follows:
>
> 0 8 16 24 32
> +--------+--------+-------+--------+ `.
> | header size | |
> +--------+--------+-------+--------+ > RPC descriptor (8 bytes)
> | payload size | |
> +--------+--------+-------+--------+ .'
> ~ header ~
> +--------+--------+-------+--------+
> ~ payload ~
> +--------+--------+-------+--------+
>
> Every time a new skb is enqueued to sk->sk_receive_queue, the
> bpf_tcp_ops prog parses it and updates these sequence numbers:
>
> rpc_desc_seq : the SEQ # of the start of the RPC descriptor
> rpc_end_seq : the SEQ # of the end of the RPC frame
> => rpc_desc_seq + 8 + header size + payload size
>
> Assume we receive two RPC descriptors in the following pattern:
>
> 1. When we receive skb-1, only part of the RPC descriptor is parsed.
> rpc_desc_seq is set to the first byte while rpc_end_seq is
> unknown. Thus, sk->sk_rcvlowat is set to the size of the RPC
> descriptor (8 bytes).
>
> <- skb-1 -> <---- skb-2 ----> <------ skb-3 ----->
> +-----------+.................+....................+......
> | RPC desc 1 | header + payload | RPC desc 2 | ...
> +-----------+.................+....................+......
> ^ ^-.
> `- rpc_desc_seq `- sk->sk_rcvlowat
>
> 2. Next, we receive skb-2, which completes the first RPC descriptor.
> Now rpc_end_seq is known, so sk->sk_rcvlowat is advanced to it.
>
> <- skb-1 -> <---- skb-2 ----> <------ skb-3 ----->
> +-----------+-----------------+....................+......
> | RPC desc 1 | header + payload | RPC desc 2 | ...
> +-----------+-----------------+....................+......
> ^ ^
> '- rpc_desc_seq '- rpc_end_seq
> & sk->sk_rcvlowat
>
> 3. Once we receive skb-3, which contains the next full RPC descriptor,
> rpc_desc_seq is advanced and rpc_end_seq is updated according
> to the size of RPC frame 2.
>
> Note that sk->sk_rcvlowat is NOT updated to the new rpc_end_seq
> yet. This ensures that the application is woken up to read the
> already complete RPC frame 1.
>
> <- skb-1 -> <---- skb-2 ----> <------ skb-3 ----->
> +-----------+-----------------+--------------------+......
> | RPC desc 1 | header + payload | RPC desc 2 | ... |
> +-----------+-----------------+--------------------+......
> ^ ^
> rpc_desc_seq -----------' rpc_end_seq ----...-'
> & sk->sk_rcvlowat
>
> This sequence corresponds to the 4th test case in rpc_test_cases[],
> and we can see helpful output if we "#define DEBUG":
>
> # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_pipe | \
> awk '{ if ($0 ~ /AF_/) sub(/^.*AF_/, "AF_"); print $0 }' & \
> BGPID=$!; ./test_progs -t tcp_autolowat; kill -9 -$BGPID
> ...
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Start parsing skb: seq: 0, end_seq: 1, len: 1, rpc_desc_seq: 0, rpc_end_seq: 0, rpc_buff_len: 0
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Copied 1 bytes: rpc_desc_buff_len: 1
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Setting rcvlowat: tp->copied_seq: 0, rpc_desc_seq: 0, rpc_end_seq: 0, rpc_desc_buff_len: 1
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Set rcvlowat: expected: 8, actual: 8
>
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Start parsing skb: seq: 1, end_seq: 8, len: 7, rpc_desc_seq: 0, rpc_end_seq: 0, rpc_buff_len: 1
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Copied full descriptor: rpc_desc_seq: 0, rpc_end_seq: 258, header_len: 100, payload_len: 150
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: No more descriptor: rpc_end_seq: 258, end_seq: 8
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Setting rcvlowat: tp->copied_seq: 0, rpc_desc_seq: 0, rpc_end_seq: 258, rpc_desc_buff_len: 8
> AF_INET6 rpc_test_cases[3]: Set rcvlowat: expected: 258, actual: 258
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-20 19:56 [PATCH bpf-next 0/7] bpf: Add bpf_tcp_ops hooks for TCP AutoLOWAT Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/7] selftest: bpf: Use BPF_SOCK_OPS_ALL_CB_FLAGS + 1 for bad_cb_test_rv Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-21 20:48 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/7] bpf: tcp: Introduce bpf_tcp_ops.{enqueue,dequeue}_rcvq() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 21:16 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 20:48 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/7] bpf: tcp: Support bpf_sock_ops_cb_flags_set() for bpf_tcp_ops Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-21 20:48 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/7] tcp: Split out __tcp_set_rcvlowat() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 21:01 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-20 21:12 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-21 20:48 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 5/7] bpf: mptcp: Don't support BPF_SOCK_OPS_RCVQ_CB_FLAG Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 6/7] bpf: tcp: Add kfunc to adjust sk->sk_rcvlowat Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 21:16 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 20:49 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-21 21:36 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-22 7:29 ` Clément Léger
2026-09-20 19:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 7/7] selftest: bpf: Add test for bpf_tcp_ops.{enqueue,dequeue}_rcvq() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-09-20 21:16 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-09-21 20:50 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2026-09-22 23:14 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
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