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<entry>
<title>veth: Fixing transmit return status for dropped packets</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liang Chen</name>
<email>liangchen.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-01T04:09:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 151e887d8ff97e2e42110ffa1fb1e6a2128fb364 ]

The veth_xmit function returns NETDEV_TX_OK even when packets are dropped.
This behavior leads to incorrect calculations of statistics counts, as
well as things like txq-&gt;trans_start updates.

Fixes: e314dbdc1c0d ("[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.")
Signed-off-by: Liang Chen &lt;liangchen.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: validate veth and vxcan peer ifindexes</title>
<updated>2023-08-30T14:23:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-19T01:26:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f534f6581ec084fe94d6759f7672bd009794b07e ]

veth and vxcan need to make sure the ifindexes of the peer
are not negative, core does not validate this.

Using iproute2 with user-space-level checking removed:

Before:

  # ./ip link add index 10 type veth peer index -1
  # ip link show
  1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
  2: enp1s0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:74:b2:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  10: veth1@veth0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,M-DOWN&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 8a:90:ff:57:6d:5d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  -1: veth0@veth1: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,M-DOWN&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ae:ed:18:e6:fa:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Now:

  $ ./ip link add index 10 type veth peer index -1
  Error: ifindex can't be negative.

This problem surfaced in net-next because an explicit WARN()
was added, the root cause is older.

Fixes: e6f8f1a739b6 ("veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex")
Fixes: a8f820a380a2 ("can: add Virtual CAN Tunnel driver (vxcan)")
Reported-by: syzbot+5ba06978f34abb058571@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>veth: Fix race with AF_XDP exposing old or uninitialized descriptors</title>
<updated>2023-01-14T09:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shawn Bohrer</name>
<email>sbohrer@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T18:59:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fa349e396e4886d742fd6501c599ec627ef1353b ]

When AF_XDP is used on on a veth interface the RX ring is updated in two
steps.  veth_xdp_rcv() removes packet descriptors from the FILL ring
fills them and places them in the RX ring updating the cached_prod
pointer.  Later xdp_do_flush() syncs the RX ring prod pointer with the
cached_prod pointer allowing user-space to see the recently filled in
descriptors.  The rings are intended to be SPSC, however the existing
order in veth_poll allows the xdp_do_flush() to run concurrently with
another CPU creating a race condition that allows user-space to see old
or uninitialized descriptors in the RX ring.  This bug has been observed
in production systems.

To summarize, we are expecting this ordering:

CPU 0 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 0 __xsk_map_flush()
CPU 2 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 2 __xsk_map_flush()

But we are seeing this order:

CPU 0 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 2 __xsk_rcv_zc()
CPU 0 __xsk_map_flush()
CPU 2 __xsk_map_flush()

This occurs because we rely on NAPI to ensure that only one napi_poll
handler is running at a time for the given veth receive queue.
napi_schedule_prep() will prevent multiple instances from getting
scheduled. However calling napi_complete_done() signals that this
napi_poll is complete and allows subsequent calls to
napi_schedule_prep() and __napi_schedule() to succeed in scheduling a
concurrent napi_poll before the xdp_do_flush() has been called.  For the
veth driver a concurrent call to napi_schedule_prep() and
__napi_schedule() can occur on a different CPU because the veth xmit
path can additionally schedule a napi_poll creating the race.

The fix as suggested by Magnus Karlsson, is to simply move the
xdp_do_flush() call before napi_complete_done().  This syncs the
producer ring pointers before another instance of napi_poll can be
scheduled on another CPU.  It will also slightly improve performance by
moving the flush closer to when the descriptors were placed in the
RX ring.

Fixes: d1396004dd86 ("veth: Add XDP TX and REDIRECT")
Suggested-by: Magnus Karlsson &lt;magnus.karlsson@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer &lt;sbohrer@cloudflare.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220185903.1105011-1-sbohrer@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>veth: Ensure eth header is in skb's linear part</title>
<updated>2022-04-20T07:23:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>gnault@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-06T14:18:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 726e2c5929de841fdcef4e2bf995680688ae1b87 ]

After feeding a decapsulated packet to a veth device with act_mirred,
skb_headlen() may be 0. But veth_xmit() calls __dev_forward_skb(),
which expects at least ETH_HLEN byte of linear data (as
__dev_forward_skb2() calls eth_type_trans(), which pulls ETH_HLEN bytes
unconditionally).

Use pskb_may_pull() to ensure veth_xmit() respects this constraint.

kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2328!
RIP: 0010:eth_type_trans+0xcf/0x140
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 __dev_forward_skb2+0xe3/0x160
 veth_xmit+0x6e/0x250 [veth]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc7/0x200
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x47f/0x520
 ? skb_ensure_writable+0x85/0xa0
 ? skb_mpls_pop+0x98/0x1c0
 tcf_mirred_act+0x442/0x47e [act_mirred]
 tcf_action_exec+0x86/0x140
 fl_classify+0x1d8/0x1e0 [cls_flower]
 ? dma_pte_clear_level+0x129/0x1a0
 ? dma_pte_clear_level+0x129/0x1a0
 ? prb_fill_curr_block+0x2f/0xc0
 ? skb_copy_bits+0x11a/0x220
 __tcf_classify+0x58/0x110
 tcf_classify_ingress+0x6b/0x140
 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x47d/0xfd0
 ? __iommu_dma_unmap_swiotlb+0x44/0x90
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x3d/0xa0
 netif_receive_skb+0x116/0x170
 be_process_rx+0x22f/0x330 [be2net]
 be_poll+0x13c/0x370 [be2net]
 __napi_poll+0x2a/0x170
 net_rx_action+0x22f/0x2f0
 __do_softirq+0xca/0x2a8
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xc1/0xe0
 common_interrupt+0x83/0xa0

Fixes: e314dbdc1c0d ("[NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>veth: fix races around rq-&gt;rx_notify_masked</title>
<updated>2022-02-16T11:54:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-08T23:28:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 68468d8c4cd4222a4ca1f185ab5a1c14480d078c ]

veth being NETIF_F_LLTX enabled, we need to be more careful
whenever we read/write rq-&gt;rx_notify_masked.

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in veth_xmit / veth_xmit

write to 0xffff888133d9a9f8 of 1 bytes by task 23552 on cpu 0:
 __veth_xdp_flush drivers/net/veth.c:269 [inline]
 veth_xmit+0x307/0x470 drivers/net/veth.c:350
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4683 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4697 [inline]
 xmit_one+0x105/0x2f0 net/core/dev.c:3473
 dev_hard_start_xmit net/core/dev.c:3489 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x86d/0xf90 net/core/dev.c:4116
 dev_queue_xmit+0x13/0x20 net/core/dev.c:4149
 br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x3ce/0x430 net/bridge/br_forward.c:53
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 br_forward_finish net/bridge/br_forward.c:66 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 __br_forward+0x2e4/0x400 net/bridge/br_forward.c:115
 br_flood+0x521/0x5c0 net/bridge/br_forward.c:242
 br_dev_xmit+0x8b6/0x960
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4683 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4697 [inline]
 xmit_one+0x105/0x2f0 net/core/dev.c:3473
 dev_hard_start_xmit net/core/dev.c:3489 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x86d/0xf90 net/core/dev.c:4116
 dev_queue_xmit+0x13/0x20 net/core/dev.c:4149
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:525 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:539 [inline]
 ip_finish_output2+0x6f8/0xb70 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:228
 ip_finish_output+0xfb/0x240 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:316
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:296 [inline]
 ip_output+0xf3/0x1a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:430
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:451 [inline]
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:126 [inline]
 ip_send_skb+0x6e/0xe0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1570
 udp_send_skb+0x641/0x880 net/ipv4/udp.c:967
 udp_sendmsg+0x12ea/0x14c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:1254
 inet_sendmsg+0x5f/0x80 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:705 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:725 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x39a/0x510 net/socket.c:2413
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2467 [inline]
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x267/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2553
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2579 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x53/0x60 net/socket.c:2579
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

read to 0xffff888133d9a9f8 of 1 bytes by task 23563 on cpu 1:
 __veth_xdp_flush drivers/net/veth.c:268 [inline]
 veth_xmit+0x2d6/0x470 drivers/net/veth.c:350
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4683 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4697 [inline]
 xmit_one+0x105/0x2f0 net/core/dev.c:3473
 dev_hard_start_xmit net/core/dev.c:3489 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x86d/0xf90 net/core/dev.c:4116
 dev_queue_xmit+0x13/0x20 net/core/dev.c:4149
 br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x3ce/0x430 net/bridge/br_forward.c:53
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 br_forward_finish net/bridge/br_forward.c:66 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 __br_forward+0x2e4/0x400 net/bridge/br_forward.c:115
 br_flood+0x521/0x5c0 net/bridge/br_forward.c:242
 br_dev_xmit+0x8b6/0x960
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4683 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4697 [inline]
 xmit_one+0x105/0x2f0 net/core/dev.c:3473
 dev_hard_start_xmit net/core/dev.c:3489 [inline]
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x86d/0xf90 net/core/dev.c:4116
 dev_queue_xmit+0x13/0x20 net/core/dev.c:4149
 neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:525 [inline]
 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:539 [inline]
 ip_finish_output2+0x6f8/0xb70 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:228
 ip_finish_output+0xfb/0x240 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:316
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:296 [inline]
 ip_output+0xf3/0x1a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:430
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:451 [inline]
 ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:126 [inline]
 ip_send_skb+0x6e/0xe0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1570
 udp_send_skb+0x641/0x880 net/ipv4/udp.c:967
 udp_sendmsg+0x12ea/0x14c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:1254
 inet_sendmsg+0x5f/0x80 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:819
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:705 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:725 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x39a/0x510 net/socket.c:2413
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2467 [inline]
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x267/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2553
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2579 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x53/0x60 net/socket.c:2579
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

value changed: 0x00 -&gt; 0x01

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 23563 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc2-syzkaller-00064-gc36c04c2e132 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

Fixes: 948d4f214fde ("veth: Add driver XDP")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Toshiaki Makita &lt;makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>veth: Do not record rx queue hint in veth_xmit</title>
<updated>2022-01-16T08:14:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-06T00:46:06+00:00</published>
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commit 710ad98c363a66a0cd8526465426c5c5f8377ee0 upstream.

Laurent reported that they have seen a significant amount of TCP retransmissions
at high throughput from applications residing in network namespaces talking to
the outside world via veths. The drops were seen on the qdisc layer (fq_codel,
as per systemd default) of the phys device such as ena or virtio_net due to all
traffic hitting a _single_ TX queue _despite_ multi-queue device. (Note that the
setup was _not_ using XDP on veths as the issue is generic.)

More specifically, after edbea9220251 ("veth: Store queue_mapping independently
of XDP prog presence") which made it all the way back to v4.19.184+,
skb_record_rx_queue() would set skb-&gt;queue_mapping to 1 (given 1 RX and 1 TX
queue by default for veths) instead of leaving at 0.

This is eventually retained and callbacks like ena_select_queue() will also pick
single queue via netdev_core_pick_tx()'s ndo_select_queue() once all the traffic
is forwarded to that device via upper stack or other means. Similarly, for others
not implementing ndo_select_queue() if XPS is disabled, netdev_pick_tx() might
call into the skb_tx_hash() and check for prior skb_rx_queue_recorded() as well.

In general, it is a _bad_ idea for virtual devices like veth to mess around with
queue selection [by default]. Given dev-&gt;real_num_tx_queues is by default 1,
the skb-&gt;queue_mapping was left untouched, and so prior to edbea9220251 the
netdev_core_pick_tx() could do its job upon __dev_queue_xmit() on the phys device.

Unbreak this and restore prior behavior by removing the skb_record_rx_queue()
from veth_xmit() altogether.

If the veth peer has an XDP program attached, then it would return the first RX
queue index in xdp_md-&gt;rx_queue_index (unless configured in non-default manner).
However, this is still better than breaking the generic case.

Fixes: edbea9220251 ("veth: Store queue_mapping independently of XDP prog presence")
Fixes: 638264dc9022 ("veth: Support per queue XDP ring")
Reported-by: Laurent Bernaille &lt;laurent.bernaille@datadoghq.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Maciej Fijalkowski &lt;maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Toshiaki Makita &lt;toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toshiaki Makita &lt;toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>veth: Store queue_mapping independently of XDP prog presence</title>
<updated>2021-03-30T12:31:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej Fijalkowski</name>
<email>maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-03T15:29:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit edbea922025169c0e5cdca5ebf7bf5374cc5566c ]

Currently, veth_xmit() would call the skb_record_rx_queue() only when
there is XDP program loaded on peer interface in native mode.

If peer has XDP prog in generic mode, then netif_receive_generic_xdp()
has a call to netif_get_rxqueue(skb), so for multi-queue veth it will
not be possible to grab a correct rxq.

To fix that, store queue_mapping independently of XDP prog presence on
peer interface.

Fixes: 638264dc9022 ("veth: Support per queue XDP ring")
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski &lt;maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Toshiaki Makita &lt;toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210303152903.11172-1-maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add redirect_peer helper</title>
<updated>2020-10-11T17:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-10T23:40:02+00:00</published>
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Add an efficient ingress to ingress netns switch that can be used out of tc BPF
programs in order to redirect traffic from host ns ingress into a container
veth device ingress without having to go via CPU backlog queue [0]. For local
containers this can also be utilized and path via CPU backlog queue only needs
to be taken once, not twice. On a high level this borrows from ipvlan which does
similar switch in __netif_receive_skb_core() and then iterates via another_round.
This helps to reduce latency for mentioned use cases.

Pod to remote pod with redirect(), TCP_RR [1]:

  # percpu_netperf 10.217.1.33
          RT_LATENCY:         122.450         (per CPU:         122.666         122.401         122.333         122.401 )
        MEAN_LATENCY:         121.210         (per CPU:         121.100         121.260         121.320         121.160 )
      STDDEV_LATENCY:         120.040         (per CPU:         119.420         119.910         125.460         115.370 )
         MIN_LATENCY:          46.500         (per CPU:          47.000          47.000          47.000          45.000 )
         P50_LATENCY:         118.500         (per CPU:         118.000         119.000         118.000         119.000 )
         P90_LATENCY:         127.500         (per CPU:         127.000         128.000         127.000         128.000 )
         P99_LATENCY:         130.750         (per CPU:         131.000         131.000         129.000         132.000 )

    TRANSACTION_RATE:       32666.400         (per CPU:        8152.200        8169.842        8174.439        8169.897 )

Pod to remote pod with redirect_peer(), TCP_RR:

  # percpu_netperf 10.217.1.33
          RT_LATENCY:          44.449         (per CPU:          43.767          43.127          45.279          45.622 )
        MEAN_LATENCY:          45.065         (per CPU:          44.030          45.530          45.190          45.510 )
      STDDEV_LATENCY:          84.823         (per CPU:          66.770          97.290          84.380          90.850 )
         MIN_LATENCY:          33.500         (per CPU:          33.000          33.000          34.000          34.000 )
         P50_LATENCY:          43.250         (per CPU:          43.000          43.000          43.000          44.000 )
         P90_LATENCY:          46.750         (per CPU:          46.000          47.000          47.000          47.000 )
         P99_LATENCY:          52.750         (per CPU:          51.000          54.000          53.000          53.000 )

    TRANSACTION_RATE:       90039.500         (per CPU:       22848.186       23187.089       22085.077       21919.130 )

  [0] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/674/attachments/568/1002/plumbers_2020_cilium_load_balancer.pdf
  [1] https://github.com/borkmann/netperf_scripts/blob/master/percpu_netperf

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201010234006.7075-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
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<entry>
<title>net: remove napi_hash_del() from driver-facing API</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T20:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-09T17:37:51+00:00</published>
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We allow drivers to call napi_hash_del() before calling
netif_napi_del() to batch RCU grace periods. This makes
the API asymmetric and leaks internal implementation details.
Soon we will want the grace period to protect more than just
the NAPI hash table.

Restructure the API and have drivers call a new function -
__netif_napi_del() if they want to take care of RCU waits.

Note that only core was checking the return status from
napi_hash_del() so the new helper does not report if the
NAPI was actually deleted.

Some notes on driver oddness:
 - veth observed the grace period before calling netif_napi_del()
   but that should not matter
 - myri10ge observed normal RCU flavor
 - bnx2x and enic did not actually observe the grace period
   (unless they did so implicitly)
 - virtio_net and enic only unhashed Rx NAPIs

The last two points seem to indicate that the calls to
napi_hash_del() were a left over rather than an optimization.
Regardless, it's easy enough to correct them.

This patch may introduce extra synchronize_net() calls for
interfaces which set NAPI_STATE_NO_BUSY_POLL and depend on
free_netdev() to call netif_napi_del(). This seems inevitable
since we want to use RCU for netpoll dev-&gt;napi_list traversal,
and almost no drivers set IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2020-09-05T04:28:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-05T04:18:58+00:00</published>
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We got slightly different patches removing a double word
in a comment in net/ipv4/raw.c - picked the version from net.

Simple conflict in drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c. Use cached
values instead of VNIC login response buffer (following what
commit 507ebe6444a4 ("ibmvnic: Fix use-after-free of VNIC login
response buffer") did).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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