From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pg1-x534.google.com (mail-pg1-x534.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::534]) by mail.toke.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6BBA9BBBBE for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:30:29 +0100 (CET) Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20210112 header.b=K3SfXTHO Received: by mail-pg1-x534.google.com with SMTP id o13so2414448pgu.7 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:30:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:references :in-reply-to:message-id:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=Bu35ayYE/oHboUTxifvNQOjweAO5e58LGfKsLXtIQqo=; b=K3SfXTHOAmn5hMqzEe6sEMxO+sa+VO0H206bXLWkyZ5RGXkVRqvb2XCa3E5jlSPGEW o3dZuKXYEDE32KoJFz7m/wFkM6Ga9RMromonynjF5pNqgn7vGOs2lZjAd6osSchiCT9j OFA8eOOxwzPRt5oRqLBrk+PsrdkrkXC3u+0k4qj2/JOzzfcEDBS27tcUqsb5BWiTJb6w 2TJjQ9Cgr4VbR5h8BmMThIZU7Jj9Rjxp2JT/bq6w5pTtv8yqAxeKpKzl/UYIt1Y8n75S uypE3R7h512IW5M/Q7QQdvJNatnuLtI+NgBfyONd8XYcEkufhCXidEO7vhbAopUTl+rm I/vw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:references :in-reply-to:message-id:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to :cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Bu35ayYE/oHboUTxifvNQOjweAO5e58LGfKsLXtIQqo=; b=jUs0DlN+0Vat8jjfCeKH+DNRgz1Oa/x+NMxUkNNZQog+IFuQxRjBOnp/qoIu/1SWZo n+y5truQsnYCdh+dirbL3q0tBSaI5KlWGz3dXjo+LXOkh4L+BBPC4+woHl/sNC4sqv3R wXrlZ0yH4RsqGvMyEW3rW9wl1hLAhcJvy02r3UnAjsMRUmnvmOGK+JT2Su9lwcEFY585 EwFHqV1vT2hzECcZbeEmQGPUCZA1rKSQK2pg8E4NOXcv9KRLdBefhvouGsU+ahVLN4Ft vB6N2Owv4+IFBvZzLMrzi1LYmFD72Ml+hsIiHFsA+A/6KDZ5kTYmtOyh3y+NBfrNlG6x tGxg== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf0jdNRsxctIT6SmzzpFBXPWc4tThfjY4rDzo7J9y+NQpBbByNEq 4RcIDMMkz6Cbv+Ndo8OWQeQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM4/9G/c9cci4E8Mv9IUtooeL/Obt8DmQtayYBxhgWsmcMCoEkq8s6nQMzJmEqN1UCuzizHYkQ== X-Received: by 2002:a65:6e4d:0:b0:46f:53cb:65b5 with SMTP id be13-20020a656e4d000000b0046f53cb65b5mr2809442pgb.507.1668101426090; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([98.97.42.169]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b5-20020a170902e94500b00176d218889esm11494681pll.228.2022.11.10.09.30.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:30:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:30:23 -0800 From: John Fastabend To: =?UTF-8?B?VG9rZSBIw7hpbGFuZC1Kw7hyZ2Vuc2Vu?= , John Fastabend , Martin KaFai Lau , Stanislav Fomichev Message-ID: <636d352fdf18e_145693208e5@john.notmuch> In-Reply-To: <87v8nmyj5r.fsf@toke.dk> References: <20221104032532.1615099-1-sdf@google.com> <20221104032532.1615099-7-sdf@google.com> <187e89c3-d7de-7bec-c72e-d9d6eb5bcca0@linux.dev> <9a8fefe4-2fcb-95b7-cda0-06509feee78e@linux.dev> <6f57370f-7ec3-07dd-54df-04423cab6d1f@linux.dev> <87leokz8lq.fsf@toke.dk> <636c533231572_13c9f42087c@john.notmuch> <87v8nmyj5r.fsf@toke.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: TAPPFRDBAPF4RWAE3FHRP552OZ7HG5ZZ X-Message-ID-Hash: TAPPFRDBAPF4RWAE3FHRP552OZ7HG5ZZ X-MailFrom: john.fastabend@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org, song@kernel.org, yhs@fb.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org, David Ahern , Jakub Kicinski , Willem de Bruijn , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , Anatoly Burakov , Alexander Lobakin , Magnus Karlsson , Maryam Tahhan , xdp-hints@xdp-project.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6 Precedence: list Subject: [xdp-hints] Re: [RFC bpf-next v2 06/14] xdp: Carry over xdp metadata into skb context List-Id: XDP hardware hints design discussion Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen wrote: > John Fastabend writes: > = > > Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen wrote: > >> Snipping a bit of context to reply to this bit: > >> = > >> >>>> Can the xdp prog still change the metadata through xdp->data_me= ta? tbh, I am not > >> >>>> sure it is solid enough by asking the xdp prog not to use the s= ame random number > >> >>>> in its own metadata + not to change the metadata through xdp->d= ata_meta after > >> >>>> calling bpf_xdp_metadata_export_to_skb(). > >> >>> > >> >>> What do you think the usecase here might be? Or are you suggesti= ng we > >> >>> reject further access to data_meta after > >> >>> bpf_xdp_metadata_export_to_skb somehow? > >> >>> > >> >>> If we want to let the programs override some of this > >> >>> bpf_xdp_metadata_export_to_skb() metadata, it feels like we can = add > >> >>> more kfuncs instead of exposing the layout? > >> >>> > >> >>> bpf_xdp_metadata_export_to_skb(ctx); > >> >>> bpf_xdp_metadata_export_skb_hash(ctx, 1234); > >> = > > > > Hi Toke, > > > > Trying not to bifurcate your thread. Can I start a new one here to > > elaborate on these use cases. I'm still a bit lost on any use case > > for this that makes sense to actually deploy on a network. > > > >> There are several use cases for needing to access the metadata after= > >> calling bpf_xdp_metdata_export_to_skb(): > >> = > >> - Accessing the metadata after redirect (in a cpumap or devmap progr= am, > >> or on a veth device) > > > > I think for devmap there are still lots of opens how/where the skb > > is even built. > = > For veth it's pretty clear; i.e., when redirecting into containers. Ah but I think XDP on veth is a bit questionable in general. The use case is NFV I guess but its not how I would build out NFV. I've never seen it actually deployed other than in CI. Anyways not necessary to drop into that debate here. It exists so OK. > = > > For cpumap I'm a bit unsure what the use case is. For ice, mlx and > > such you should use the hardware RSS if performance is top of mind. > = > Hardware RSS works fine if your hardware supports the hashing you want;= > many do not. As an example, Jesper wrote this application that uses > cpumap to divide out ISP customer traffic among different CPUs (solving= > an HTB scaling problem): > = > https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-cpumap-tc I'm going to argue hw should be able to do this still and we should fix the hw but maybe not easily doable without convincing hardware folks to talk to us. Also not obvious tto me how linked code works without more studying, its ingress HTB? So you would push the rxhash and timestamp into cpumap and then build the skb here with the correct skb->timestamp? OK even if I can't exactly find the use case for cpumap if I had a use case I can see how passing metadata through is useful. > = > > And then for specific devices on cpumap (maybe realtime or ptp > > things?) could we just throw it through the xdp_frame? > = > Not sure what you mean here? Throw what through the xdp_frame? Doesn't matter reread patches and figured it out I was slightly confused. > = > >> - Transferring the packet+metadata to AF_XDP > > > > In this case we have the metadata and AF_XDP program and XDP program > > simply need to agree on metadata format. No need to have some magic > > numbers and driver specific kfuncs. > = > See my other reply to Martin: Yeah, for AF_XDP users that write their > own kernel XDP programs, they can just do whatever they want. But many > users just rely on the default program in libxdp, so having a standard > format to include with that is useful. > = I don't think your AF_XDP program is any different than other AF_XDP programs. Your lib can create a standard format if it wants but kernel doesn't need to enforce it anyway. > >> - Returning XDP_PASS, but accessing some of the metadata first (whet= her > >> to read or change it) > >> = > > > > I don't get this case? XDP_PASS should go to stack normally through > > drivers build_skb routines. These will populate timestamp normally. > > My guess is simply descriptor->skb load/store is cheaper than carryin= g > > around this metadata and doing the call in BPF side. Anyways you > > just built an entire skb and hit the stack I don't think you will > > notice this noise in any benchmark. > = > If you modify the packet before calling XDP_PASS you may want to update= > the metadata as well (for instance the RX hash, or in the future the > metadata could also carry transport header offsets). OK. So when you modify the pkt fixing up the rxhash makes sense. Thanks for the response I can see the argument. Thanks, John=