Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] A couple of small refactorings of BPF program call sites

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:26:46 -0700

On 08/18, Toke H�iland-J�rgensen wrote:
> Stanislav suggested[0] that these small refactorings could be split out  
> from the
> XDP queueing RFC series and merged separately. The first change is a small
> repacking of struct softnet_data, the others change the BPF call sites to
> support full 64-bit values as arguments to bpf_redirect_map() and as the  
> return
> value of a BPF program, relying on the fact that BPF registers are always  
> 64-bit
> wide to maintain backwards compatibility.

> Please see the individual patches for details.

> [0]  
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAKH8qBtdnku7StcQ-SamadvAF==DRuLLZO94yOR1WJ9Bg=[email-masked]

Looks like a nice cleanup to me:
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[email-masked]>

Can you share more on this comment?

/* For some architectures, we need to do modulus in 32-bit width */

Some - which ones? And why do they need it to be 32-bit?

> Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi (1):
>    bpf: Use 64-bit return value for bpf_prog_run

> Toke H�iland-J�rgensen (2):
>    dev: Move received_rps counter next to RPS members in softnet data
>    bpf: Expand map key argument of bpf_redirect_map to u64

>   include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h | 12 +++++-----
>   include/linux/bpf.h        | 16 ++++++-------
>   include/linux/filter.h     | 46 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>   include/linux/netdevice.h  |  2 +-
>   include/uapi/linux/bpf.h   |  2 +-
>   kernel/bpf/cgroup.c        | 12 +++++-----
>   kernel/bpf/core.c          | 14 ++++++------
>   kernel/bpf/cpumap.c        |  4 ++--
>   kernel/bpf/devmap.c        |  4 ++--
>   kernel/bpf/offload.c       |  4 ++--
>   kernel/bpf/verifier.c      |  2 +-
>   net/bpf/test_run.c         | 21 +++++++++--------
>   net/core/filter.c          |  4 ++--
>   net/packet/af_packet.c     |  7 ++++--
>   net/xdp/xskmap.c           |  4 ++--
>   15 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

> --
> 2.37.2