netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/4] samples/bpf: Add bpf sample to offload flowtable traffic to xdp

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Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 12:19:05 +0200
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>, Lorenzo Bianconi
 <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc: bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
 Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
 <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netfilter-devel
 <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, Network Development
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel
 Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
 Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com>, Florian Westphal
 <fw@...len.de>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, donhunte@...hat.com, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
 <memxor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/4] samples/bpf: Add bpf sample to offload
 flowtable traffic to xdp

Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> writes:

> On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 3:13 AM Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Introduce xdp_flowtable_offload bpf sample to offload sw flowtable logic
>> in xdp layer if hw flowtable is not available or does not support a
>> specific kind of traffic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
>> ---
>>  samples/bpf/Makefile                     |   7 +-
>>  samples/bpf/xdp_flowtable_offload.bpf.c  | 591 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  samples/bpf/xdp_flowtable_offload_user.c | 128 +++++
>>  3 files changed, 725 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_flowtable_offload.bpf.c
>>  create mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_flowtable_offload_user.c
>
> I feel this sample code is dead on arrival.
> Make selftest more real if you want people to use it as an example,
> but samples dir is just a dumping ground.
> We shouldn't be adding anything to it.

Agreed. We can integrate a working sample into xdp-tools instead :)

-Toke