1. 30 Nov, 2020 2 commits
    • Björn Töpel's avatar
      net: Introduce preferred busy-polling · 7fd3253a
      Björn Töpel authored
      The existing busy-polling mode, enabled by the SO_BUSY_POLL socket
      option or system-wide using the /proc/sys/net/core/busy_read knob, is
      an opportunistic. That means that if the NAPI context is not
      scheduled, it will poll it. If, after busy-polling, the budget is
      exceeded the busy-polling logic will schedule the NAPI onto the
      regular softirq handling.
      
      One implication of the behavior above is that a busy/heavy loaded NAPI
      context will never enter/allow for busy-polling. Some applications
      prefer that most NAPI processing would be done by busy-polling.
      
      This series adds a new socket option, SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, that works
      in concert with the napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout
      knobs. The napi_defer_hard_irqs and gro_flush_timeout knobs were
      introduced in commit 6f8b12d6 ("net: napi: add hard irqs deferral
      feature"), and allows for a user to defer interrupts to be enabled and
      instead schedule the NAPI context from a watchdog timer. When a user
      enables the SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL, again with the other knobs enabled,
      and the NAPI context is being processed by a softirq, the softirq NAPI
      processing will exit early to allow the busy-polling to be performed.
      
      If the application stops performing busy-polling via a system call,
      the watchdog timer defined by gro_flush_timeout will timeout, and
      regular softirq handling will resume.
      
      In summary; Heavy traffic applications that prefer busy-polling over
      softirq processing should use this option.
      
      Example usage:
      
        $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/napi_defer_hard_irqs
        $ echo 200000 | sudo tee /sys/class/net/ens785f1/gro_flush_timeout
      
      Note that the timeout should be larger than the userspace processing
      window, otherwise the watchdog will timeout and fall back to regular
      softirq processing.
      
      Enable the SO_BUSY_POLL/SO_PREFER_BUSY_POLL options on your socket.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBjörn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201130185205.196029-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
      7fd3253a
    • KP Singh's avatar
      selftests/bpf: Fix flavored variants of test_ima · 854055c0
      KP Singh authored
      Flavored variants of test_progs (e.g. test_progs-no_alu32) change their
      working directory to the corresponding subdirectory (e.g. no_alu32).
      Since the setup script required by test_ima (ima_setup.sh) is not
      mentioned in the dependencies, it does not get copied to these
      subdirectories and causes flavored variants of test_ima to fail.
      
      Adding the script to TRUNNER_EXTRA_FILES ensures that the file is also
      copied to the subdirectories for the flavored variants of test_progs.
      
      Fixes: 34b82d3a ("bpf: Add a selftest for bpf_ima_inode_hash")
      Reported-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
      Suggested-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201126184946.1708213-1-kpsingh@chromium.org
      854055c0
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