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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/map_cpumap.rst b/Documentation/bpf/map_cpumap.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..923cfc8ab51f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/bpf/map_cpumap.rst @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Red Hat, Inc. + +=================== +BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP +=================== + +.. note:: + - ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP`` was introduced in kernel version 4.15 + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/bpf/cpumap.c + :doc: cpu map + +An example use-case for this map type is software based Receive Side Scaling (RSS). + +The CPUMAP represents the CPUs in the system indexed as the map-key, and the +map-value is the config setting (per CPUMAP entry). Each CPUMAP entry has a dedicated +kernel thread bound to the given CPU to represent the remote CPU execution unit. + +Starting from Linux kernel version 5.9 the CPUMAP can run a second XDP program +on the remote CPU. This allows an XDP program to split its processing across +multiple CPUs. For example, a scenario where the initial CPU (that sees/receives +the packets) needs to do minimal packet processing and the remote CPU (to which +the packet is directed) can afford to spend more cycles processing the frame. The +initial CPU is where the XDP redirect program is executed. The remote CPU +receives raw ``xdp_frame`` objects. + +Usage +===== + +Kernel BPF +---------- +bpf_redirect_map() +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +.. code-block:: c + + long bpf_redirect_map(struct bpf_map *map, u32 key, u64 flags) + +Redirect the packet to the endpoint referenced by ``map`` at index ``key``. +For ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP`` this map contains references to CPUs. + +The lower two bits of ``flags`` are used as the return code if the map lookup +fails. This is so that the return value can be one of the XDP program return +codes up to ``XDP_TX``, as chosen by the caller. + +User space +---------- +.. note:: + CPUMAP entries can only be updated/looked up/deleted from user space and not + from an eBPF program. Trying to call these functions from a kernel eBPF + program will result in the program failing to load and a verifier warning. + +bpf_map_update_elem() +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +.. code-block:: c + + int bpf_map_update_elem(int fd, const void *key, const void *value, __u64 flags); + +CPU entries can be added or updated using the ``bpf_map_update_elem()`` +helper. This helper replaces existing elements atomically. The ``value`` parameter +can be ``struct bpf_cpumap_val``. + + .. code-block:: c + + struct bpf_cpumap_val { + __u32 qsize; /* queue size to remote target CPU */ + union { + int fd; /* prog fd on map write */ + __u32 id; /* prog id on map read */ + } bpf_prog; + }; + +The flags argument can be one of the following: + - BPF_ANY: Create a new element or update an existing element. + - BPF_NOEXIST: Create a new element only if it did not exist. + - BPF_EXIST: Update an existing element. + +bpf_map_lookup_elem() +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +.. code-block:: c + + int bpf_map_lookup_elem(int fd, const void *key, void *value); + +CPU entries can be retrieved using the ``bpf_map_lookup_elem()`` +helper. + +bpf_map_delete_elem() +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +.. code-block:: c + + int bpf_map_delete_elem(int fd, const void *key); + +CPU entries can be deleted using the ``bpf_map_delete_elem()`` +helper. This helper will return 0 on success, or negative error in case of +failure. + +Examples +======== +Kernel +------ + +The following code snippet shows how to declare a ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP`` called +``cpu_map`` and how to redirect packets to a remote CPU using a round robin scheme. + +.. code-block:: c + + struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP); + __type(key, __u32); + __type(value, struct bpf_cpumap_val); + __uint(max_entries, 12); + } cpu_map SEC(".maps"); + + struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY); + __type(key, __u32); + __type(value, __u32); + __uint(max_entries, 12); + } cpus_available SEC(".maps"); + + struct { + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY); + __type(key, __u32); + __type(value, __u32); + __uint(max_entries, 1); + } cpus_iterator SEC(".maps"); + + SEC("xdp") + int xdp_redir_cpu_round_robin(struct xdp_md *ctx) + { + __u32 key = 0; + __u32 cpu_dest = 0; + __u32 *cpu_selected, *cpu_iterator; + __u32 cpu_idx; + + cpu_iterator = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&cpus_iterator, &key); + if (!cpu_iterator) + return XDP_ABORTED; + cpu_idx = *cpu_iterator; + + *cpu_iterator += 1; + if (*cpu_iterator == bpf_num_possible_cpus()) + *cpu_iterator = 0; + + cpu_selected = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&cpus_available, &cpu_idx); + if (!cpu_selected) + return XDP_ABORTED; + cpu_dest = *cpu_selected; + + if (cpu_dest >= bpf_num_possible_cpus()) + return XDP_ABORTED; + + return bpf_redirect_map(&cpu_map, cpu_dest, 0); + } + +User space +---------- + +The following code snippet shows how to dynamically set the max_entries for a +CPUMAP to the max number of cpus available on the system. + +.. code-block:: c + + int set_max_cpu_entries(struct bpf_map *cpu_map) + { + if (bpf_map__set_max_entries(cpu_map, libbpf_num_possible_cpus()) < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "Failed to set max entries for cpu_map map: %s", + strerror(errno)); + return -1; + } + return 0; + } + +References +=========== + +- https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/05/13/receive-side-scaling-rss-with-ebpf-and-cpumap#redirecting_into_a_cpumap |