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Re: xdp generic default option

From: Andrii Nakryiko <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-19 20:58:04
Also in: bpf

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:29 AM Lorenzo Bianconi [off-list ref] wrote:
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Hi Andrii,

working on xdp multi-buff I figured out now xdp generic is the default choice
if not specified by userspace. In particular after commit 7f0a838254bd
("bpf, xdp: Maintain info on attached XDP BPF programs in net_device"), running
the command below, XDP will run in generic mode even if the underlay driver
support XDP in native mode:

$ip link set dev eth0 xdp obj prog.o
$ip link show dev eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 xdpgeneric qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT
   group default qlen 1024
   link/ether f0:ad:4e:09:6b:57 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   prog/xdp id 1 tag 3b185187f1855c4c jited

Is it better to use xdpdrv as default choice if not specified by userspace?
doing something like:
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a00aa737ce29..1f85880ee412 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8747,9 +8747,9 @@ static enum bpf_xdp_mode dev_xdp_mode(u32 flags)
 {
        if (flags & XDP_FLAGS_HW_MODE)
                return XDP_MODE_HW;
-       if (flags & XDP_FLAGS_DRV_MODE)
-               return XDP_MODE_DRV;
-       return XDP_MODE_SKB;
+       if (flags & XDP_FLAGS_SKB_MODE)
+               return XDP_MODE_SKB;
+       return XDP_MODE_DRV;
 }
I think the better way would be to choose XDP_MODE_DRV if ndo_bpf !=
NULL and XDP_MODE_SKB otherwise. That seems to be matching original
behavior, no?

It was not my intent to change the behavior, sorry about that. I'll
post patch a bit later today.

 static bpf_op_t dev_xdp_bpf_op(struct net_device *dev, enum bpf_xdp_mode mode)

Regards,
Lorenzo
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