Re: [PATCH] bpf: validate bpf_func when BPF_JIT is enabled

From: Toke HÃiland-JÃrgensen
Date: Wed Sep 11 2019 - 08:09:09 EST


BjÃrn TÃpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2019-09-11 09:42, Yonghong Song wrote:
>> I am not an expert in XDP testing. Toke, BjÃrn, could you give some
>> suggestions what to test for XDP performance here?
>
> I ran the "xdp_rxq_info" sample with and without Sami's patch:

Thanks for doing this!

> $ sudo ./xdp_rxq_info --dev enp134s0f0 --action XDP_DROP
>
> Before:
>
> Running XDP on dev:enp134s0f0 (ifindex:6) action:XDP_DROP options:no_touch
> XDP stats CPU pps issue-pps
> XDP-RX CPU 20 23923874 0
> XDP-RX CPU total 23923874
>
> RXQ stats RXQ:CPU pps issue-pps
> rx_queue_index 20:20 23923878 0
> rx_queue_index 20:sum 23923878
>
> After Sami's patch:
>
> Running XDP on dev:enp134s0f0 (ifindex:6) action:XDP_DROP options:no_touch
> XDP stats CPU pps issue-pps
> XDP-RX CPU 20 22998700 0
> XDP-RX CPU total 22998700
>
> RXQ stats RXQ:CPU pps issue-pps
> rx_queue_index 20:20 22998705 0
> rx_queue_index 20:sum 22998705
>
>
> So, roughly ~4% for this somewhat naive scenario.

Or (1/22998700 - 1/23923874) * 10**9 == 1.7 nanoseconds of overhead.

I guess that is not *too* bad; but it's still chipping away at
performance; anything we could do to lower the overhead?

-Toke