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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat•com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel•org>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, kuba@kernel•org, brouer@redhat•com,
	daniel@iogearbox•net, john.fastabend@gmail•com, ast@kernel•org,
	kafai@fb•com, songliubraving@fb•com, yhs@fb•com, andriin@fb•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/5] bpf: Add support to attach bpf program to a devmap entry
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 16:58:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1v51l21.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39fc3e35-49c6-3d47-e3fc-809f41998362@gmail.com>

David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com> writes:

> On 5/27/20 4:01 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> Did you give any special consideration to where the hook should be? I'm
>> asking because my immediate thought was that it should be on flush
>> (i.e., in bq_xmit_all()), but now that I see this I'm so sure anymore.
>> What were your thoughts around this?
>
> I chose this spot for many reasons:
>
> 1. dev_map_enqueue has the bpf_dtab_netdev structure which holds the program
>
> 2. programs take xdp_buff, and dev_map_enqueue still has the xdp_buff
> with the rx information; no need to convert from buff to frame losing rx
> data, enqueue, back to buff to run program, back to frame to hand off to
> the driver.
>
> 3. no sense enqueuing if the device program drops the frame.

Right, makes sense; thank you for explaining :)

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27  1:09 [PATCH bpf-next 0/5] bpf: Add support for XDP programs in DEVMAP entries David Ahern
2020-05-27  1:09 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/5] bpf: Handle 8-byte values in DEVMAP and DEVMAP_HASH David Ahern
2020-05-27 10:26   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-05-27 13:56     ` David Ahern
2020-05-27 14:57       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-27 15:24         ` David Ahern
2020-05-27 14:27     ` David Ahern
2020-05-27 15:30       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-05-27 18:38         ` David Ahern
2020-05-27  1:09 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/5] bpf: Add support to attach bpf program to a devmap entry David Ahern
2020-05-27 10:01   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-27 14:02     ` David Ahern
2020-05-27 14:58       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-05-27  1:09 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/5] xdp: Add xdp_txq_info to xdp_buff David Ahern
2020-05-27  1:09 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/5] bpftool: Add SEC name for xdp programs attached to device map David Ahern
2020-05-27 10:02   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-27 14:03     ` David Ahern
2020-05-27 15:01       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-27 15:43         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-05-27  1:09 ` [PATCH bpf-next 5/5] selftest: Add tests for XDP programs in devmap entries David Ahern

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