netdev - Re: [patch net-next] tc: add BPF based action

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:55:37 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, jhs@...atatu.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] tc: add BPF based action

On Mi, 2015-01-07 at 17:43 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> +static int tcf_bpf(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a,
> +		   struct tcf_result *res)
> +{
> +	struct tcf_bpf *b = a->priv;
> +	int action;
> +	int filter_res;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&b->tcf_lock);
> +	b->tcf_tm.lastuse = jiffies;
> +	bstats_update(&b->tcf_bstats, skb);
> +	action = b->tcf_action;
> +
> +	filter_res = BPF_PROG_RUN(b->filter, skb);
> +	if (filter_res == -1)
> +		goto drop;
> +
> +	goto unlock;
> +
> +drop:
> +	action = TC_ACT_SHOT;
> +	b->tcf_qstats.drops++;
> +unlock:
> +	spin_unlock(&b->tcf_lock);
> +	return action;
> +}

In theory this could be like:

filter_res = BPF_PROG_RUN(b->filter, skb);

spin_lock(&b->tcf_lock);
<update stats...>

if (filter_res == -1)
  goto drop;

action = b->tcf_action;
...

to keep BPF_PROG_RUN out of the spin_lock?

Bye,
Hannes


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