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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:10:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9d36808-e482-f234-76a0-ec4cf0a16ab5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515567969-27946-1-git-send-email-ophirmu@mellanox.com>



On 2018年01月10日 15:06, Ophir Munk wrote:
> The patches of TAP RSS eBPF follow the RFC on this issue
> https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/31781/
>
> v3 changes with respect to v2
> =============================
> * Add support for IPv6 RSS in BPF program
> * Bug fixes
> * Updated compatibility to kernel versions:
>    eBPF requires Linux version 4.9 configured with BPF
> * New license header (SPDX) for newly added files
>
> v2 changes with respect to v1
> =============================
> * v2 has new commits organization (3 --> 2)
> * BPF program was revised. It is successfully tested on
>    IPv4 L3 L4 layers (compatible to mlx4 device)
> * Licensing: no comments received for using "Dual BSD/GPL"
>    string during BPF program loading to the kernel.
>    (v1 and v2 are using the same license strings)
>    Any comments are welcome.
> * Compatibility to kernel versions:
>    eBPF requires Linux version 4.2 configured with BPF. TAP PMD will
>    successfully compile on systems with old or non-BPF configured kernels.
>    During compilation time the required Linux headers are searched for.
>    If they are not present missing definitions are locally added
>    (tap_autoconf.h).
>    If the kernel cannot support a BPF operation - at runtime it will
>    gracefully reject the netlink message (with BPF) sent to it.
>
> Commit #1:
> net/tap: add eBPF instructions to TAP device
> ===========================================
>    This commit introduces BPF program (tap_bpf_program.c)
>    with a classifier and an action sections.
>    The current implementation calculates RSS hash
>    over L3 addresses and L4 ports.
>    BPF program compilation is not part of dpdk compilation.
>    This commit includes the eBPF machine instructions
>    in the format of C arrays (tap_bpf_insns.c).
>
>    The option to update the BPF program and download new machine
>    instructions will be described in another commit.
>
> Commit #2:
> net/tap: implement RSS with eBPF classifier and action
> ======================================================
> This commit builds and sends netlink messages to the kernel
> that include BPF programs.
> There is a single BPF classifier for each TAP queue. Packets
> marked with an RSS queue will be directed to this queue using a traffic
> control with "skbedit" action otherwise they will be pipelined to
> the following rules.
> There is a single BPF action for each RSS rule (may add more
> to support IPv6).
> The action is to calculate Toeplitz hash based on L3 addresses and L4 ports,
> mark the packet with the RSS queue according the resulting hash,
> then reclassify the packet.
> Ophir Munk (2):
>    net/tap: add eBPF instructions to TAP device
>    net/tap: implement RSS with eBPF classifier and action
>
>   drivers/net/tap/Makefile          |   31 +
>   drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.h     |    9 +-
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf.h         |   92 ++
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf_insns.c   | 1905 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf_program.c |  221 +++++
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.c        |  635 +++++++++++--
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_flow.h        |   15 +
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_rss.h         |   32 +
>   drivers/net/tap/tap_tcmsgs.h      |    4 +
>   9 files changed, 2848 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf.h
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf_insns.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf_program.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/tap_rss.h
>

TAP will support eBPF classification directly [1] through eBPF socket 
filter. Compare to tc-bpf, it was more portable for other backends (e.g 
macvtap).

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/drivers/net/tun.c?id=96f84061620c6325a2ca9a9a05b410e6461d03c3

Thanks

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-17 12:21 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] " Ophir Munk
2017-12-17 12:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] net/tap: add BPF sections for TAP device Ophir Munk
2017-12-17 12:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/3] net/tap: add eBPF instructions Ophir Munk
2017-12-17 12:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/3] net/tap: add eBPF classifiers map and actions Ophir Munk
2017-12-28 10:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Ophir Munk
2017-12-28 10:09   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] net/tap: add eBPF instructions to TAP device Ophir Munk
2017-12-28 10:09   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/tap: implement RSS with eBPF classifier and action Ophir Munk
2018-01-10  7:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Ophir Munk
2018-01-10  7:06     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] net/tap: add eBPF instructions to TAP device Ophir Munk
2018-01-10  9:34       ` Pascal Mazon
2018-01-10 10:12         ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-10  7:06     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/tap: implement RSS with eBPF classifier and action Ophir Munk
2018-01-10 10:19       ` Pascal Mazon
2018-01-11 17:20         ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-10 10:10     ` Jason Wang [this message]
2018-01-10 15:34       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Ophir Munk
2018-01-11  2:45         ` Jason Wang
2018-01-11 17:45     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] " Ophir Munk
2018-01-11 17:45       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] net/tap: support actions for different classifiers Ophir Munk
2018-01-11 17:45       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] net/tap: add eBPF bytes code Ophir Munk
2018-01-11 17:45       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] net/tap: add eBPF program file Ophir Munk
2018-01-11 17:45       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] net/tap: add eBPF API Ophir Munk
2018-01-11 17:45       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] net/tap: implement TAP RSS using eBPF Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] net/tap: support actions for different classifiers Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] net/tap: add eBPF bytes code Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] net/tap: add eBPF program file Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] net/tap: add eBPF API Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] net/tap: implement TAP RSS using eBPF Ophir Munk
2018-01-18 13:38         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] doc: detail new tap RSS feature in guides Ophir Munk
2018-01-19  6:48         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Pascal Mazon
2018-01-20 16:15           ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-20 21:25             ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-21 14:20               ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-20 21:11         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/6] net/tap: support actions for different classifiers Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/6] net/tap: add eBPF program file Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/6] net/tap: add eBPF bytes code Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/6] net/tap: add eBPF API Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/6] net/tap: implement TAP RSS using eBPF Ophir Munk
2018-01-20 21:11           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 6/6] doc: detail new tap RSS feature in guides Ophir Munk
2018-01-21 14:50           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/6] TAP RSS eBPF cover letter Ferruh Yigit

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