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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat•com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com>,
	Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet•unipi.it>
Cc: "Jubran\, Samih" <sameehj@amazon•com>, "Machulsky\,
	Zorik" <zorik@amazon•com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox•net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, "Tzalik\,
	Guy" <gtzalik@amazon•com>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro•org>, "Kiyanovski\,
	Arthur" <akiyano@amazon•com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel•org>,
	"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>,
	brouer@redhat•com
Subject: Re: XDP multi-buffer design discussion
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:00:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eex38gxy.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191217094635.7e4cac1c@carbon>

Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat•com> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:15:12 -0800
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet•unipi.it> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 6:07 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
>> <brouer@redhat•com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > See answers inlined below (please get an email client that support
>> > inline replies... to interact with this community)
>> >
>> > On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:57:12 +0000
>> > "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@amazon•com> wrote:  
>> ...
>> > > * Why should we provide the fragments to the bpf program if the
>> > > program doesn't access them? If validating the length is what
>> > > matters, we can provide only the full length info to the user with no
>> > > issues.  
>> >
>> > My Proposal#1 (in [base-doc]) is that XDP only get access to the
>> > first-buffer.  People are welcome to challenge this choice.
>> >
>> > There are a several sub-questions and challenges hidden inside this
>> > choice.
>> >
>> > As you hint, the total length... spawns some questions we should answer:
>> >
>> >  (1) is it relevant to the BPF program to know this, explain the use-case.
>> >
>> >  (2) if so, how does BPF prog access info (without slowdown baseline)  
>> 
>> For some use cases, the bpf program could deduct the total length
>> looking at the L3 header. 
>
> Yes, that actually good insight.  I guess the BPF-program could also
> use this to detect that it doesn't have access to the full-lineary
> packet this way(?)
>
>> It won't work for XDP_TX response though.
>
> The XDP_TX case also need to be discussed/handled. IMHO need to support
> XDP_TX for multi-buffer frames.  XDP_TX *can* be driver specific, but
> most drivers choose to convert xdp_buff to xdp_frame, which makes it
> possible to use/share part of the XDP_REDIRECT code from ndo_xdp_xmit.
>
> We also need to handle XDP_REDIRECT, which becomes challenging, as the
> ndo_xdp_xmit functions of *all* drivers need to be updated (or
> introduce a flag to handle this incrementally).

If we want to handle TX and REDIRECT (which I agree we do!), doesn't
that imply that we have to structure the drivers so the XDP program
isn't executed until we have the full packet (i.e., on the last
segment)?

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-17  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-12-16 14:07             ` XDP multi-buffer design discussion Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-12-17  4:15               ` Luigi Rizzo
2019-12-17  8:46                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-12-17  9:00                   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2019-12-17 15:44                     ` Jubran, Samih
2019-12-17 22:30                   ` Luigi Rizzo
2019-12-18 16:03                     ` Jubran, Samih
2019-12-19 10:44                       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-12-19 17:29                         ` Luigi Rizzo
2020-01-19  7:34                           ` Jubran, Samih
2020-01-22 18:50                             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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