Re: [Patch bpf-next v8 00/16] sockmap: introduce BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT and support UDP

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:52 AM John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Cong Wang wrote:
> > From: Cong Wang <cong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We have thousands of services connected to a daemon on every host
> > via AF_UNIX dgram sockets, after they are moved into VM, we have to
> > add a proxy to forward these communications from VM to host, because
> > rewriting thousands of them is not practical. This proxy uses an
> > AF_UNIX socket connected to services and a UDP socket to connect to
> > the host. It is inefficient because data is copied between kernel
> > space and user space twice, and we can not use splice() which only
> > supports TCP. Therefore, we want to use sockmap to do the splicing
> > without going to user-space at all (after the initial setup).
> >
> > Currently sockmap only fully supports TCP, UDP is partially supported
> > as it is only allowed to add into sockmap. This patchset, as the second
> > part of the original large patchset, extends sockmap with:
> > 1) cross-protocol support with BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT; 2) full UDP support.
> >
> > On the high level, ->read_sock() is required for each protocol to support
> > sockmap redirection, and in order to do sock proto update, a new ops
> > ->psock_update_sk_prot() is introduced, which is also required. And the
> > BPF ->recvmsg() is also needed to replace the original ->recvmsg() to
> > retrieve skmsg. To make life easier, we have to get rid of lock_sock()
> > in sk_psock_handle_skb(), otherwise we would have to implement
> > ->sendmsg_locked() on top of ->sendmsg(), which is ugly.
> >
> > Please see each patch for more details.
> >
> > To see the big picture, the original patchset is available here:
> > https://github.com/congwang/linux/tree/sockmap
> > this patchset is also available:
> > https://github.com/congwang/linux/tree/sockmap2
> >
> > ---
>
> This LGTM, thanks for doing this Cong.

Applied. Thanks everyone.
Cong, please follow up with minor cleanup that John requested.



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