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[RFC,0/9] veth: Driver XDP

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Toshiaki Makita April 24, 2018, 2:39 p.m. UTC 
From: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp>

This patch set introduces driver XDP for veth.
Basically this is used in conjunction with redirect action of another XDP
program.

  NIC -----------> veth===veth
 (XDP) (redirect)        (XDP)

In this case xdp_frame can be forwarded to the peer veth without
modification, so we can expect far better performance than generic XDP.

The envisioned use cases are:

* Container managed XDP program
Container host redirects frames to containers by XDP redirect action, and
privileged containers can deploy their own XDP programs.

* XDP program cascading
Two or more XDP programs can be called for each packet by redirecting
xdp frames to veth.

* Internal interface for an XDP bridge
When using XDP redirection to create a virtual bridge, veth can be used
to create an internal interface for the bridge.

With single core and simple XDP programs which only redirect and drop
packets, I got 10.5 Mpps redirect/drop rate with i40e 25G NIC + veth.

XXV710 (i40e) --- (XDP redirect) --> veth===veth (XDP drop)

This changeset is making use of NAPI to implement ndo_xdp_xmit and
XDP_TX/REDIRECT. This is mainly because I wanted to avoid stack inflation
by recursive calling of XDP programs.

As an RFC this has not implemented recently introduced xdp_adjust_tail
and based on top of Jesper's redirect memory return API patch set
(684009d4fdaf).
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

Toshiaki Makita (9):
  net: Export skb_headers_offset_update and skb_copy_header
  veth: Add driver XDP
  veth: Avoid drops by oversized packets when XDP is enabled
  veth: Use NAPI for XDP
  veth: Handle xdp_frame in xdp napi ring
  veth: Add ndo_xdp_xmit
  veth: Add XDP TX and REDIRECT
  veth: Avoid per-packet spinlock of XDP napi ring on dequeueing
  veth: Avoid per-packet spinlock of XDP napi ring on enqueueing

 drivers/net/veth.c     | 688 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/filter.h |  16 ++
 include/linux/skbuff.h |   2 +
 net/core/filter.c      |  11 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c      |  12 +-
 5 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)