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| author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> | 2015-07-21 06:34:18 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-07-21 06:52:31 +0300 |
| commit | 4e10df9a60d96ced321dd2af71da558c6b750078 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a913ab31a28d48de3b3510470320220eb75e6eb /include/linux/bpf.h | |
| parent | f3120acc7851bffd1cd15acd044b7fa6fa520e75 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4e10df9a60d96ced321dd2af71da558c6b750078.tar.xz | |
bpf: introduce bpf_skb_vlan_push/pop() helpers
Allow eBPF programs attached to TC qdiscs call skb_vlan_push/pop via
helper functions. These functions may change skb->data/hlen which are
cached by some JITs to improve performance of ld_abs/ld_ind instructions.
Therefore JITs need to recognize bpf_skb_vlan_push/pop() calls,
re-compute header len and re-cache skb->data/hlen back into cpu registers.
Note, skb->data/hlen are not directly accessible from the programs,
so any changes to skb->data done either by these helpers or by other
TC actions are safe.
eBPF JIT supported by three architectures:
- arm64 JIT is using bpf_load_pointer() without caching, so it's ok as-is.
- x64 JIT re-caches skb->data/hlen unconditionally after vlan_push/pop calls
(experiments showed that conditional re-caching is slower).
- s390 JIT falls back to interpreter for now when bpf_skb_vlan_push() is present
in the program (re-caching is tbd).
These helpers allow more scalable handling of vlan from the programs.
Instead of creating thousands of vlan netdevs on top of eth0 and attaching
TC+ingress+bpf to all of them, the program can be attached to eth0 directly
and manipulate vlans as necessary.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/bpf.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bpf.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index 4383476a0d48..139d6d2e123f 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -192,5 +192,7 @@ extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_ktime_get_ns_proto; extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_current_pid_tgid_proto; extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_current_uid_gid_proto; extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_get_current_comm_proto; +extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_skb_vlan_push_proto; +extern const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_skb_vlan_pop_proto; #endif /* _LINUX_BPF_H */ |