netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v8 03/13] bpf: sockmap, reschedule is now done through backlog

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Message-ID: <87r0rf8gnj.fsf@cloudflare.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:12:48 +0200
From: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc: daniel@...earbox.net, bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 edumazet@...gle.com, ast@...nel.org, andrii@...nel.org, will@...valent.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v8 03/13] bpf: sockmap, reschedule is now done
 through backlog

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:22 PM -07, John Fastabend wrote:
> Now that the backlog manages the reschedule() logic correctly we can drop
> the partial fix to reschedule from recvmsg hook.
>
> Rescheduling on recvmsg hook was added to address a corner case where we
> still had data in the backlog state but had nothing to kick it and
> reschedule the backlog worker to run and finish copying data out of the
> state. This had a couple limitations, first it required user space to
> kick it introducing an unnecessary EBUSY and retry. Second it only
> handled the ingress case and egress redirects would still be hung.
>
> With the correct fix, pushing the reschedule logic down to where the
> enomem error occurs we can drop this fix.
>
> Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>

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> Fixes: bec217197b412 ("skmsg: Schedule psock work if the cached skb exists on the psock")
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> ---

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