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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 17:56:51 +0100 From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> Cc: "brouer\@redhat.com" <brouer@...hat.com>, "hawk\@kernel.org" <hawk@...nel.org>, "virtualization\@lists.linux-foundation.org" <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, "borkmann\@iogearbox.net" <borkmann@...earbox.net>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>, "john.fastabend\@gmail.com" <john.fastabend@...il.com>, "mst\@redhat.com" <mst@...hat.com>, "dsahern\@gmail.com" <dsahern@...il.com>, "netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "jasowang\@redhat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>, "davem\@davemloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>, "makita.toshiaki\@lab.ntt.co.jp" <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp> Subject: Re: Resource management for ndo_xdp_xmit (Was: [PATCH net] virtio_net: Account for tx bytes and packets on sending xdp_frames) Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> writes: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 00:18:31 +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote: >> On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 15:17 -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote: >> > On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 19:08 +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote: >> > > >> > > So >> > > 1) on dev_map_update_elem() we will call >> > > dev->dev->ndo_bpf() to notify the device on the intention to >> > > start/stop >> > > redirect, and wait for it to create/destroy the HW resources >> > > before/after actually updating the map >> > > >> > >> > silly me, dev_map_update_elem must be atomic, we can't hook driver >> > resource allocation to it, it must come as a separate request >> > (syscall) >> > from user space to request to create XDP redirect resources. >> > >> >> Well, it is possible to render dev_map_update_elem non-atomic and fail >> BPF programs who try to update it in the verifier >> check_map_func_compatibility. >> >> if you know of any case where devmap needs to be updated from the BPF >> program please let me know. > > Did we find a solution to non-map redirect? See my other reply to Saeed :) -Toke
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