From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat•com>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb•com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel•org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel•org>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb•com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb•com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel•org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel•org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/3] bpf: Add "live packet" mode for XDP in bpf_prog_run()
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 17:03:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czjt8k78.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220211071952.t7e6shipuc5shblv@kafai-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb•com> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 05:37:54PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 4:30 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat•com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I left that out on purpose: I feel it's exposing an internal
>> > implementation detail as UAPI (as you said). And I'm not convinced it
>> > really needed (or helpful) - see below.
>>
>> It's irrelevant whether it's documented or not.
>> Once this implementation detail is being relied upon
>> by user space it becomes an undocumented uapi that we cannot change.
>>
>> > I'll try implementing a TCP stream mode in xdp_trafficgen just to make
>> > sure I'm not missing something. But I believe that sending out a stream
>> > of packets that looks like a coherent TCP stream should be simple
>> > enough, at least. Dealing with the full handshake + CWND control loop
>> > will be harder, though, and right now I think it'll require multiple
>> > trips back to userspace.
>>
>> The patch set looks very close to being able to do such TCP streaming.
>> Let's make sure nothing is missing from API before we land it.
> Hi Toke, I am also looking at ways to blast tcp packets by using
> bpf to overcome the pktgen udp-only limitation.
> Are you planning to respin with a TCP stream mode in xdp_trafficgen ?
> Thanks !
Yes, working on it! Got sidetracked a bit, but hoping to have something
to show for my efforts sometime next week :)
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-11 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-07 21:54 [PATCH bpf-next v7 0/3] Add support for transmitting packets using XDP in bpf_prog_run() Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-07 21:54 ` [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/3] bpf: Add "live packet" mode for " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-08 2:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-01-08 13:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-08 19:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-01-08 20:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-09 2:24 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-01-09 12:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-13 1:37 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-02-11 7:19 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2022-02-11 16:03 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-01-07 21:54 ` [PATCH bpf-next v7 2/3] selftests/bpf: Move open_netns() and close_netns() into network_helpers.c Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-07 21:54 ` [PATCH bpf-next v7 3/3] selftests/bpf: Add selftest for XDP_REDIRECT in bpf_prog_run() Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-01-08 19:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-01-08 20:29 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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