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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:58:22 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@....fi>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 net-next 1/3] filter: add Extended BPF interpreter
 and converter

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/filter.h b/include/linux/filter.h
> index e568c8ef896b..6e6aab5e062b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/filter.h
> +++ b/include/linux/filter.h
> @@ -25,20 +25,45 @@ struct sock;
>  struct sk_filter
>  {
>  	atomic_t		refcnt;
> -	unsigned int         	len;	/* Number of filter blocks */
> +	/* len - number of insns in sock_filter program
> +	 * len_ext - number of insns in socket_filter_ext program
> +	 * jited - true if either original or extended program was JITed
> +	 * orig_prog - original sock_filter program if not NULL
> +	 */
> +	unsigned int		len;
> +	unsigned int		len_ext;
> +	unsigned int		jited:1;

This is consuming 4 bytes just to store the jited bit. I think you can
scratch that bit from len, given the maximum filter length for bpf. I
think the the jited bit change that David suggested have to come in
first place as a separated patch in the series.

> +	struct sock_filter	*orig_prog;

If your new extended filtering is not used, this consumes 8 extra
bytes + len_ext (bytes) in x86_64. I think a more generic way to make
this is that you can move the original bpf filter and its length at
the bottom of this structure after insns to store something like:

struct sk_bpf_compat {
        struct sock_filter      *prog;
        unsigned int            len;
};

This would be only allocated when you filtering approach is used. For
that you'll need some enum in sk_filter to indicate the filtering
approach, but we'll save 8 bytes per filter in the end with regards to
this current patch.

>  	struct rcu_head		rcu;
> -	unsigned int		(*bpf_func)(const struct sk_buff *skb,
> -					    const struct sock_filter *filter);
> +	union {
> +		unsigned int (*bpf_func)(const struct sk_buff *skb,
> +					 const struct sock_filter *fp);
> +		unsigned int (*bpf_func_ext)(const struct sk_buff *skb,
> +					     const struct sock_filter_ext *fp);
> +	};
>  	union {
>  		struct sock_filter     	insns[0];
> +		struct sock_filter_ext	insns_ext[0];
>  		struct work_struct	work;
>  	};
>  };
>  
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