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authorToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>2020-02-18 14:03:34 +0100
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2020-02-18 15:31:31 +0100
commitf25975f42f2f8f2a01303054d6a70c7ceb1fcf54 (patch)
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bpf, uapi: Remove text about bpf_redirect_map() giving higher performance
The performance of bpf_redirect() is now roughly the same as that of bpf_redirect_map(). However, David Ahern pointed out that the header file has not been updated to reflect this, and still says that a significant performance increase is possible when using bpf_redirect_map(). Remove this text from the bpf_redirect_map() description, and reword the description in bpf_redirect() slightly. Also fix the 'Return' section of the bpf_redirect_map() documentation. Fixes: 1d233886dd90 ("xdp: Use bulking for non-map XDP_REDIRECT and consolidate code paths") Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200218130334.29889-1-toke@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h16
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index f1d74a2bd234..22f235260a3a 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1045,9 +1045,9 @@ union bpf_attr {
* supports redirection to the egress interface, and accepts no
* flag at all.
*
- * The same effect can be attained with the more generic
- * **bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which requires specific maps to be
- * used but offers better performance.
+ * The same effect can also be attained with the more generic
+ * **bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which uses a BPF map to store the
+ * redirect target instead of providing it directly to the helper.
* Return
* For XDP, the helper returns **XDP_REDIRECT** on success or
* **XDP_ABORTED** on error. For other program types, the values
@@ -1611,13 +1611,11 @@ union bpf_attr {
* the caller. Any higher bits in the *flags* argument must be
* unset.
*
- * When used to redirect packets to net devices, this helper
- * provides a high performance increase over **bpf_redirect**\ ().
- * This is due to various implementation details of the underlying
- * mechanisms, one of which is the fact that **bpf_redirect_map**\
- * () tries to send packet as a "bulk" to the device.
+ * See also bpf_redirect(), which only supports redirecting to an
+ * ifindex, but doesn't require a map to do so.
* Return
- * **XDP_REDIRECT** on success, or **XDP_ABORTED** on error.
+ * **XDP_REDIRECT** on success, or the value of the two lower bits
+ * of the **flags* argument on error.
*
* int bpf_sk_redirect_map(struct sk_buff *skb, struct bpf_map *map, u32 key, u64 flags)
* Description