Subject: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] netfilter: Add the capability to offload flowtable in XDP layer

From: Lorenzo Bianconi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:40:45 +0200

Introduce bpf_xdp_flow_lookup kfunc in order to perform the lookup of
a given flowtable entry based on the fib tuple of incoming traffic.
bpf_xdp_flow_lookup can be used as building block to offload in XDP
the sw flowtable processing when the hw support is not available.

This series has been tested running the xdp_flowtable_offload eBPF program
on an ixgbe 10Gbps NIC (eno2) in order to XDP_REDIRECT the TCP traffic to
a veth pair (veth0-veth1) based on the content of the nf_flowtable as soon
as the TCP connection is in the established state:

[tcp client] (eno1) == LAN == (eno2) xdp_flowtable_offload [XDP_REDIRECT] --> veth0 == veth1 [tcp server]

table inet filter {
	flowtable ft {
		hook ingress priority filter
		devices = { eno2, veth0 }
	}
	chain forward {
		type filter hook forward priority filter
		meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft
	}
}

-  sw flowtable [1 TCP stream, T = 300s]: ~ 6.2 Gbps
- xdp flowtable [1 TCP stream, T = 300s]: ~ 7.6 Gbps

-  sw flowtable [3 TCP stream, T = 300s]: ~ 7.7 Gbps
- xdp flowtable [3 TCP stream, T = 300s]: ~ 8.8 Gbps

Changes since v4:
- add missing BPF_NO_KFUNC_PROTOTYPES macro to selftest
Changes since v3:
- move flowtable map utilities in nf_flow_table_xdp.c
Changes since v2:
- introduce bpf_flowtable_opts struct in bpf_xdp_flow_lookup signature
- get rid of xdp_flowtable_offload bpf sample
- get rid of test_xdp_flowtable.sh for selftest and rely on prog_tests instead
- rename bpf_xdp_flow_offload_lookup in bpf_xdp_flow_lookup
Changes since v1:
- return NULL in bpf_xdp_flow_offload_lookup kfunc in case of error
- take into account kfunc registration possible failures
Changes since RFC:
- fix compilation error if BTF is not enabled

Akced-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>

Florian Westphal (1):
  netfilter: nf_tables: add flowtable map for xdp offload

Lorenzo Bianconi (2):
  netfilter: add bpf_xdp_flow_lookup kfunc
  selftests/bpf: Add selftest for bpf_xdp_flow_lookup kfunc

 include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h         |  18 ++
 net/netfilter/Makefile                        |   7 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_bpf.c             | 117 ++++++++++++
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c            |   2 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c         |   6 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_xdp.c             | 163 +++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/config            |  13 ++
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_flowtable.c  | 168 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_flowtable.c       | 146 +++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 636 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_bpf.c
 create mode 100644 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_xdp.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_flowtable.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_flowtable.c

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