On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > RSS is a receive steering algorithm that can be negotiated to use with > virtio_net. Conventionally the hash calculation was done by the VMM. > However, computing the hash after the queue was chosen defeats the > purpose of RSS. > > Another approach is to use eBPF steering program. This approach has > another downside: it cannot report the calculated hash due to the > restrictive nature of eBPF steering program. > > Introduce the code to perform RSS to the kernel in order to overcome > thse challenges. An alternative solution is to extend the eBPF steering > program so that it will be able to report to the userspace, but I didn't > opt for it because extending the current mechanism of eBPF steering > program as is because it relies on legacy context rewriting, and > introducing kfunc-based eBPF will result in non-UAPI dependency while > the other relevant virtualization APIs such as KVM and vhost_net are > UAPIs. > > Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@xxxxxxxxxx> If we decide to go this way, we need to make it reusable for macvtap as well. Thanks
