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xdp: add a new helper for dev map multicast support
This patch is for xdp multicast support, which has been discussed
before[0], The goal is to be able to implement an OVS-like data plane in
XDP, i.e., a software switch that can forward XDP frames to multiple ports.
To achieve this, an application needs to specify a group of interfaces
to forward a packet to. It is also common to want to exclude one or more
physical interfaces from the forwarding operation - e.g., to forward a
packet to all interfaces in the multicast group except the interface it
arrived on. While this could be done simply by adding more groups, this
quickly leads to a combinatorial explosion in the number of groups an
application has to maintain.
To avoid the combinatorial explosion, we propose to include the ability
to specify an "exclude group" as part of the forwarding operation. This
needs to be a group (instead of just a single port index), because a
physical interface can be part of a logical grouping, such as a bond
device.
Thus, the logical forwarding operation becomes a "set difference"
operation, i.e. "forward to all ports in group A that are not also in
group B". This series implements such an operation using device maps to
represent the groups. This means that the XDP program specifies two
device maps, one containing the list of netdevs to redirect to, and the
other containing the exclude list.
To achieve this, a new helper bpf_redirect_map_multi() is implemented
to accept two maps, the forwarding map and exclude map. The forwarding
map could be DEVMAP or DEVMAP_HASH, but the exclude map *must* be
DEVMAP_HASH to get better performace. If user don't want to use exclude
map and just want simply stop redirecting back to ingress device, they
can use flag BPF_F_EXCLUDE_INGRESS.
As both bpf_xdp_redirect_map() and this new helpers are using struct
bpf_redirect_info, a new field ex_map is added and tgt_value is set to NULL
in the new helper to make a difference with bpf_xdp_redirect_map().
At last, keep the general data path in net/core/filter.c, the native data
path in kernel/bpf/devmap.c so we can use direct calls to get better
performace.
[0] https://xdp-project.net/#Handling-multicast
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
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