netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/8] Simplify xdp_do_redirect_map()/xdp_do_flush

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:05:44 +0100
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        "Karlsson\, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/8] Simplify
 xdp_do_redirect_map()/xdp_do_flush_map() and XDP maps

On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:25:47 +0100
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:

> Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:30, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> wrote:  
> >>
> >> Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com> writes:
> >>  
> > [...]  
> >> > I have now went over the entire patchset, and everything look perfect,
> >> > I will go as far as saying it is brilliant.  We previously had the
> >> > issue, that using different redirect maps in a BPF-prog would cause the
> >> > bulking effect to be reduced, as map_to_flush cause previous map to get
> >> > flushed. This is now solved :-)  
> >>
> >> Another thing that occurred to me while thinking about this: Now that we
> >> have a single flush list, is there any reason we couldn't move the
> >> devmap xdp_bulk_queue into struct net_device? That way it could also be
> >> used for the non-map variant of bpf_redirect()?
> >>  
> >
> > Indeed! (At least I don't see any blockers...)  
> 
> Cool, that's what I thought. Maybe I'll give that a shot, then, unless
> you beat me to it ;)
 
Generally sounds like a good idea.

It this only for devmap xdp_bulk_queue?

Some gotchas off the top of my head.

The cpumap also have a struct xdp_bulk_queue, which have a different
layout. (sidenote: due to BTF we likely want rename that).

If you want to generalize this across all redirect maps type. You
should know, that it was on purpose that I designed the bulking to be
map specific, because that allowed each map to control its own optimal
bulking.  E.g. devmap does 16 frames bulking, cpumap does 8 frames (as
it matches sending 1 cacheline into underlying ptr_ring), xskmap does
64 AFAIK (which could hurt-latency, but that is another discussion).

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer