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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/index.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/index.rst b/Documentation/bpf/index.rst index d46429be334e..7df2465fd108 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/index.rst @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ Two sets of Questions and Answers (Q&A) are maintained. bpf_devel_QA +Helper functions +================ + +* `bpf-helpers(7)`_ maintains a list of helpers available to eBPF programs. + + Program types ============= @@ -79,4 +85,5 @@ Other .. _networking-filter: ../networking/filter.rst .. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .. _bpf(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bpf.2.html +.. _bpf-helpers(7): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/bpf-helpers.7.html .. _BPF and XDP Reference Guide: https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/bpf/ diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst b/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst index 75f943f0009d..6a615cd62bda 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst @@ -182,9 +182,6 @@ in the order of reservations, but only after all previous records where already committed. It is thus possible for slow producers to temporarily hold off submitted records, that were reserved later. -Reservation/commit/consumer protocol is verified by litmus tests in -Documentation/litmus_tests/bpf-rb/_. - One interesting implementation bit, that significantly simplifies (and thus speeds up as well) implementation of both producers and consumers is how data area is mapped twice contiguously back-to-back in the virtual memory. This @@ -200,7 +197,7 @@ a self-pacing notifications of new data being availability. being available after commit only if consumer has already caught up right up to the record being committed. If not, consumer still has to catch up and thus will see new data anyways without needing an extra poll notification. -Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbuf.c_) show that +Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbufs.c) show that this allows to achieve a very high throughput without having to resort to tricks like "notify only every Nth sample", which are necessary with perf buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of |