Hello Alexei,
Can you please answer the questions in the last email of this thread?
Your comment will be extremely helpful.
Thanks
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:55 PM Yuri Benditovich
<yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:40 PM Yuri Benditovich
> <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:42 PM Yuri Benditovich
> > <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This program type can set skb hash value. It will be useful
> > > when the tun will support hash reporting feature if virtio-net.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/tun.c | 2 ++
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> > > index 7959b5c2d11f..455f7afc1f36 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> > > @@ -2981,6 +2981,8 @@ static int tun_set_ebpf(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_prog __rcu **prog_p,
> > > prog = NULL;
> > > } else {
> > > prog = bpf_prog_get_type(fd, BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER);
> > > + if (IS_ERR(prog))
> > > + prog = bpf_prog_get_type(fd, BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS);
> > > if (IS_ERR(prog))
> > > return PTR_ERR(prog);
> > > }
> >
> > Comment from Alexei Starovoitov:
> > Patches 1 and 2 are missing for me, so I couldn't review properly,
> > but this diff looks odd.
> > It allows sched_cls prog type to attach to tun.
> > That means everything that sched_cls progs can do will be done from tun hook?
>
> We do not have an intention to modify the packet in this steering eBPF.
> There is just one function that unavailable for BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER
> that the eBPF needs to make possible to deliver the hash to the guest
> VM - it is 'bpf_set_hash'
>
> Does it mean that we need to define a new eBPF type for socket filter
> operations + set_hash?
>
> Our problem is that the eBPF calculates 32-bit hash, 16-bit queue
> index and 8-bit of hash type.
> But it is able to return only 32-bit integer, so in this set of
> patches the eBPF returns
> queue index and hash type and saves the hash in skb->hash using bpf_set_hash().
>
> If this is unacceptable, can you please recommend a better solution?
>
> > sched_cls assumes l2 and can modify the packet.
>
> The steering eBPF in TUN module also assumes l2.
>
> > I think crashes are inevitable.
> >
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >
_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
