On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 21:53, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Björn Töpel <bjorn.to...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: Björn Töpel <bjorn.to...@intel.com>
> >
> > In commit 43e74c0267a3 ("bpf_xdp_redirect_map: Perform map lookup in
> > eBPF helper") the bpf_redirect_map() helper learned to do map lookup,
> > which means that the explicit lookup in the XDP program for AF_XDP is
> > not needed.
> >
> > This commit removes the map lookup, which simplifies the BPF code and
> > improves the performance for the "rx_drop" [1] scenario with ~4%.
>
> Nice, 4% is pretty good!
>
> I wonder if the program needs to be backwards-compatible (with pre-5.3
> kernels), though?
>
> You can do that by something like this:
>
> ret = bpf_redirect_map(&xsks_map, index, XDP_PASS);
> if (ret > 0)
> return ret;
>
> if (bpf_map_lookup_elem(&xsks_map, &index))
> return bpf_redirect_map(&xsks_map, index, 0);
> return XDP_PASS;
>
Ah, yes. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll do a respin.
Thanks,
Björn
>
> This works because bpf_redirect_map() prior to 43e74c0267a3 will return
> XDP_ABORTED on a non-0 flags value.
>
> -Toke
>
