netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 05/12] Add sample for adding simple drop program to link

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:09:26 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	Ari Saha <as754m@....com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>, john.fastabend@...il.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/12] Add sample for adding simple drop program to
 link

On 16-07-07 10:15 PM, Brenden Blanco wrote:
> Add a sample program that only drops packets at the BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP_RX
> hook of a link. With the drop-only program, observed single core rate is
> ~20Mpps.
>
> Other tests were run, for instance without the dropcnt increment or
> without reading from the packet header, the packet rate was mostly
> unchanged.
>
> $ perf record -a samples/bpf/xdp1 $(</sys/class/net/eth0/ifindex)
> proto 17:   20403027 drops/s
>

So - devil's advocate speaking:
I can filter and drop with this very specific NIC at 10x as fast
in hardware, correct?
Would a different NIC (pick something like e1000) have served a better
example?
BTW: Brenden, now that i looked closer here, you really dont have
apple-apple comparison with dropping at tc ingress. You have a
tweaked prefetch and are intentionally running things on a single
core. Note: We are able to do 20Mpps drops with tc with a single
core (as shown in netdev11) on a NUC with removing driver overhead.

cheers,
jamal