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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@redhat.com>,
	brouer@redhat.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	xdp-hints@xdp-project.net, larysa.zaremba@intel.com,
	memxor@gmail.com, Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
	mtahhan@redhat.com,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
	dave@dtucker.co.uk, Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>,
	bjorn@kernel.org
Subject: [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 00/18] XDP-hints: XDP gaining access to HW offload hints via BTF
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:59:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221004175952.6e4aade7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ccff6fa-0d50-c436-b891-ab797fe7e3c4@linux.dev>

On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 17:25:51 -0700 Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> A intentionally wild question, what does it take for the driver to return the 
> hints.  Is the rx_desc and rx_queue enough?  When the xdp prog is calling a 
> kfunc/bpf-helper, like 'hwtstamp = bpf_xdp_get_hwtstamp()', can the driver 
> replace it with some inline bpf code (like how the inline code is generated for 
> the map_lookup helper).  The xdp prog can then store the hwstamp in the meta 
> area in any layout it wants.

Since you mentioned it... FWIW that was always my preference rather than
the BTF magic :)  The jited image would have to be per-driver like we
do for BPF offload but that's easy to do from the technical
perspective (I doubt many deployments bind the same prog to multiple
HW devices)..

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-05  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-07 15:45 [xdp-hints] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 01/18] libbpf: factor out BTF loading from load_module_btfs() Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 02/18] libbpf: try to load vmlinux BTF from the kernel first Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 03/18] libbpf: patch module BTF obj+type ID into BPF insns Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 04/18] net: create xdp_hints_common and set functions Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-09 10:49   ` [xdp-hints] " Burakov, Anatoly
2022-09-09 14:13     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 05/18] net: add net_device feature flag for XDP-hints Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 06/18] xdp: controlling XDP-hints from BPF-prog via helper Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 07/18] i40e: Refactor i40e_ptp_rx_hwtstamp Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 08/18] i40e: refactor i40e_rx_checksum with helper Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 09/18] bpf: export btf functions for modules Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 10/18] btf: Add helper for kernel modules to lookup full BTF ID Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:45 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 11/18] i40e: add XDP-hints handling Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 12/18] net: use XDP-hints in xdp_frame to SKB conversion Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 13/18] mvneta: add XDP-hints support Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 14/18] i40e: Add xdp_hints_union Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 15/18] ixgbe: enable xdp-hints Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 16/18] ixgbe: add rx timestamp xdp hints support Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 17/18] xsk: AF_XDP xdp-hints support in desc options Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-08  8:06   ` [xdp-hints] " Magnus Karlsson
2022-09-08 10:10     ` Maryam Tahhan
2022-09-08 15:04       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-09  6:43         ` Magnus Karlsson
2022-09-09  8:12           ` Maryam Tahhan
2022-09-09  9:42             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-09 10:14               ` Magnus Karlsson
2022-09-09 12:35                 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-09 12:44                   ` Magnus Karlsson
2022-09-07 15:46 ` [xdp-hints] [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 18/18] ixgbe: AF_XDP xdp-hints processing in ixgbe_clean_rx_irq_zc Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-09-08  9:30 ` [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH RFCv2 bpf-next 00/18] XDP-hints: XDP gaining access to HW offload hints via BTF Alexander Lobakin
2022-09-09 13:48   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-03 23:55 ` sdf
2022-10-04  9:29   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-04 18:26     ` Stanislav Fomichev
2022-10-05  0:25       ` Martin KaFai Lau
2022-10-05  0:59         ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-10-05  1:02           ` Stanislav Fomichev
2022-10-05  1:24             ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-05  2:15               ` Stanislav Fomichev
2022-10-05 19:26                 ` Martin KaFai Lau
2022-10-06  9:14                   ` Magnus Karlsson
2022-10-06 15:29                     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-11  6:29                       ` Martin KaFai Lau
2022-10-11 11:57                         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-05 10:06             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-10-05 18:47               ` sdf
2022-10-06  8:19                 ` Maryam Tahhan
2022-10-06 17:22                   ` sdf
2022-10-05 14:19             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-06 14:59               ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-05 13:43         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-05 16:29       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-05 18:43         ` sdf
2022-10-06 17:47           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-10-07 15:05             ` David Ahern
2022-10-05 13:14     ` Burakov, Anatoly

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