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Message-ID: <CAF=yD-Jr1wKo6viUGWTcXsT5b9e1NkuemuvjN988qSyNmheM2A@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:36:43 -0400 From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com> To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> Cc: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@...com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@...nix.com>, Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@...nix.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] bpf: Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_VNET_HASH On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 7:53 PM Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:10 AM Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com> wrote: > > > > On 2023/10/16 1:07, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 7:17 AM Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > > >> index 0448700890f7..298634556fab 100644 > > >> --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > > >> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h > > >> @@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ enum bpf_prog_type { > > >> BPF_PROG_TYPE_SK_LOOKUP, > > >> BPF_PROG_TYPE_SYSCALL, /* a program that can execute syscalls */ > > >> BPF_PROG_TYPE_NETFILTER, > > >> + BPF_PROG_TYPE_VNET_HASH, > > > > > > Sorry, we do not add new stable program types anymore. > > > > > >> @@ -6111,6 +6112,10 @@ struct __sk_buff { > > >> __u8 tstamp_type; > > >> __u32 :24; /* Padding, future use. */ > > >> __u64 hwtstamp; > > >> + > > >> + __u32 vnet_hash_value; > > >> + __u16 vnet_hash_report; > > >> + __u16 vnet_rss_queue; > > >> }; > > > > > > we also do not add anything to uapi __sk_buff. > > > > > >> +const struct bpf_verifier_ops vnet_hash_verifier_ops = { > > >> + .get_func_proto = sk_filter_func_proto, > > >> + .is_valid_access = sk_filter_is_valid_access, > > >> + .convert_ctx_access = bpf_convert_ctx_access, > > >> + .gen_ld_abs = bpf_gen_ld_abs, > > >> +}; > > > > > > and we don't do ctx rewrites like this either. > > > > > > Please see how hid-bpf and cgroup rstat are hooking up bpf > > > in _unstable_ way. > > > > Can you describe what "stable" and "unstable" mean here? I'm new to BPF > > and I'm worried if it may mean the interface stability. > > > > Let me describe the context. QEMU bundles an eBPF program that is used > > for the "eBPF steering program" feature of tun. Now I'm proposing to > > extend the feature to allow to return some values to the userspace and > > vhost_net. As such, the extension needs to be done in a way that ensures > > interface stability. > > bpf is not an option then. > we do not add stable bpf program types or hooks any more. > If a kernel subsystem wants to use bpf it needs to accept the fact > that such bpf extensibility will be unstable and subsystem maintainers > can decide to remove such bpf support in the future. Based on hooks for tracepoints and kfuncs, correct? Perhaps the existing stable flow dissector type is extensible to optionally compute the hash and report hash and hash type. Else we probably should revisit the previous version of this series.
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