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[RFC,net-next,0/2] Use per-task storage for XDP-redirects on PREEMPT_RT

Message ID 20240213145923.2552753-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de (mailing list archive)
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Series Use per-task storage for XDP-redirects on PREEMPT_RT | expand

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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Feb. 13, 2024, 2:58 p.m. UTC 
In [0] I introduced explicit locking for resources which are otherwise
locked implicit locked by local_bh_disable() and this protections goes
away if the lock in local_bh_disable() is removed on PREEMPT_RT.

There was a big complained once it came to the locking of XDP related
resources during XDP-redirect because it was mostly per-packet and the
locking, even not contended, was seen as a problem [1]. Another XDP
related problem was that I also touched every NIC-driver using XDP. This
complicated the "how to write a NIC driver" further.

To solve both problems I was thinking about an alternative and ended up
with moving the data structure from per-CPU to per-task on PREEMPT_RT.
Instead of adding it to task_struct, I added a pointer there and setup
the struct on stack. In my debug build on x86-64 the struct
bpf_xdp_storage has 112 bytes and collected the per-CPU ressources.

I'm posting here only two patches which replace the XDP redirect part
(patches 14 to 24) from the original series.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231215171020.687342-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAADnVQKJBpvfyvmgM29FLv+KpLwBBRggXWzwKzaCT9U-4bgxjA@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231215145059.3b42ee35@kernel.org

Sebastian