The patch a few patches from this one changes logic for callbacks handling. While previously callbacks were verified as a single function call, new scheme takes into account that callbacks could be executed unknown number of times. This has dire implications for bpf_loop_bench: SEC("fentry/" SYS_PREFIX "sys_getpgid") int benchmark(void *ctx) { for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0); __sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops); } return 0; } W/o callbacks change for verifier it merely represents 1000 calls to empty_callback(). However, with callbacks change things become exponential: - i=0: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=0 (a); - i=1: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=1; ... - i=999: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=999; - state (a) is popped from stack; - i=1: state exploring empty_callback is scheduled with i=1; ... Avoid this issue by rewriting outer loop as bpf_loop(). Unfortunately, this adds a function call to a loop at runtime, which negatively affects performance: throughput latency before: 149.919 ± 0.168 M ops/s, 6.670 ns/op after : 137.040 ± 0.187 M ops/s, 7.297 ns/op Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c index 4ce76eb064c4..d461746fd3c1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_loop_bench.c @@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ static int empty_callback(__u32 index, void *data) return 0; } +static int outer_loop(__u32 index, void *data) +{ + bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0); + __sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops); + return 0; +} + SEC("fentry/" SYS_PREFIX "sys_getpgid") int benchmark(void *ctx) { - for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { - bpf_loop(nr_loops, empty_callback, NULL, 0); - - __sync_add_and_fetch(&hits, nr_loops); - } + bpf_loop(1000, outer_loop, NULL, 0); return 0; } -- 2.42.0