Hi Christophe,
On 11/11/22 4:55 pm, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 10/11/2022 à 19:43, Hari Bathini a écrit :
Most BPF programs are small, but they consume a page each. For systems
with busy traffic and many BPF programs, this may also add significant
pressure on instruction TLB. High iTLB pressure usually slows down the
whole system causing visible performance degradation for production
workloads.
bpf_prog_pack, a customized allocator that packs multiple bpf programs
into preallocated memory chunks, was proposed [1] to address it. This
series extends this support on powerpc.
Patches 1 & 2 add the arch specific functions needed to support this
feature. Patch 3 enables the support for powerpc. The last patch
ensures cleanup is handled racefully.
Tested the changes successfully on a PowerVM. patch_instruction(),
needed for bpf_arch_text_copy(), is failing for ppc32. Debugging it.
Posting the patches in the meanwhile for feedback on these changes.
I did a quick test on ppc32, I don't get such a problem, only something
wrong in the dump print as traps intructions only are dumped, but
tcpdump works as expected:
Thanks for the quick test. Could you please share the config you used.
I am probably missing a few knobs in my conifg...
Thanks
Hari
