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bpf: Provide helper to do forwarding lookups in kernel FIB table

Provide a helper for doing a FIB and neighbor lookup in the kernel tables from an XDP program. The helper provides a fastpath for forwarding packets. If the packet is a local delivery or for any reason is not a simple lookup and forward, the packet continues up the stack. If it is to be forwarded, the forwarding can be done directly if the neighbor is already known. If the neighbor does not exist, the first few packets go up the stack for neighbor resolution. Once resolved, the xdp program provides the fast path. On successful lookup the nexthop dmac, current device smac and egress device index are returned. The API supports IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS protocols, but only IPv4 and IPv6 are implemented in this patch. The API includes layer 4 parameters if the XDP program chooses to do deep packet inspection to allow compare against ACLs implemented as FIB rules. Header rewrite is left to the XDP program. The lookup takes 2 flags: - BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_DIRECT to do a lookup that bypasses FIB rules and goes straight to the table associated with the device (expert setting for those looking to maximize throughput) - BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_OUTPUT to do a lookup from the egress perspective. Default is an ingress lookup. Initial performance numbers collected by Jesper, forwarded packets/sec: Full stack XDP FIB lookup XDP Direct lookup IPv4 1,947,969 7,074,156 7,415,333 IPv6 1,728,000 6,165,504 7,262,720 These number are single CPU core forwarding on a Broadwell E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz.

David Ahern committed 8 years ago

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@@ -1828,6 +1828,33 @@ union bpf_attr { · 1827 unmodified lines
18281828 * Return
18291829 * 0 on success, or a negative error in case of failure.
18301830 *
1831+ *
1832+ * int bpf_fib_lookup(void *ctx, struct bpf_fib_lookup *params, int plen, u32 flags)
1833+ * Description
1834+ * Do FIB lookup in kernel tables using parameters in *params*.
1835+ * If lookup is successful and result shows packet is to be
1836+ * forwarded, the neighbor tables are searched for the nexthop.
1837+ * If successful (ie., FIB lookup shows forwarding and nexthop
1838+ * is resolved), the nexthop address is returned in ipv4_dst,
1839+ * ipv6_dst or mpls_out based on family, smac is set to mac
1840+ * address of egress device, dmac is set to nexthop mac address,
1841+ * rt_metric is set to metric from route.
1842+ *
1843+ * *plen* argument is the size of the passed in struct.
1844+ * *flags* argument can be one or more BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_ flags:
1845+ *
1846+ * **BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_DIRECT** means do a direct table lookup vs
1847+ * full lookup using FIB rules
1848+ * **BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_OUTPUT** means do lookup from an egress
1849+ * perspective (default is ingress)
1850+ *
1851+ * *ctx* is either **struct xdp_md** for XDP programs or
1852+ * **struct sk_buff** tc cls_act programs.
1853+ *
1854+ * Return
1855+ * Egress device index on success, 0 if packet needs to continue
1856+ * up the stack for further processing or a negative error in case
1857+ * of failure.
18311858 */
18321859 #define __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER(FN) \
18331860 FN(unspec), \
@@ -1898,7 +1925,8 @@ union bpf_attr { · 64 unmodified lines
18981925 FN(xdp_adjust_tail), \
18991926 FN(skb_get_xfrm_state), \
19001927 FN(get_stack), \
1901− FN(skb_load_bytes_relative),
1928+ FN(skb_load_bytes_relative), \
1929+ FN(fib_lookup),
19021930
19031931 /* integer value in 'imm' field of BPF_CALL instruction selects which helper
19041932 * function eBPF program intends to call
@@ -2321,4 +2349,55 @@ struct bpf_raw_tracepoint_args { · 416 unmodified lines
23212349 __u64 args[0];
23222350 };
23232351
2352+/* DIRECT: Skip the FIB rules and go to FIB table associated with device
2353+ * OUTPUT: Do lookup from egress perspective; default is ingress
2354+ */
2355+#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_DIRECT BIT(0)
2356+#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_OUTPUT BIT(1)
2357+
2358+struct bpf_fib_lookup {
2359+ /* input */
2360+ __u8 family; /* network family, AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_MPLS */
2361+
2362+ /* set if lookup is to consider L4 data - e.g., FIB rules */
2363+ __u8 l4_protocol;
2364+ __be16 sport;
2365+ __be16 dport;
2366+
2367+ /* total length of packet from network header - used for MTU check */
2368+ __u16 tot_len;
2369+ __u32 ifindex; /* L3 device index for lookup */
2370+
2371+ union {
2372+ /* inputs to lookup */
2373+ __u8 tos; /* AF_INET */
2374+ __be32 flowlabel; /* AF_INET6 */
2375+
2376+ /* output: metric of fib result */
2377+ __u32 rt_metric;
2378+ };
2379+
2380+ union {
2381+ __be32 mpls_in;
2382+ __be32 ipv4_src;
2383+ __u32 ipv6_src[4]; /* in6_addr; network order */
2384+ };
2385+
2386+ /* input to bpf_fib_lookup, *dst is destination address.
2387+ * output: bpf_fib_lookup sets to gateway address
2388+ */
2389+ union {
2390+ /* return for MPLS lookups */
2391+ __be32 mpls_out[4]; /* support up to 4 labels */
2392+ __be32 ipv4_dst;
2393+ __u32 ipv6_dst[4]; /* in6_addr; network order */
2394+ };
2395+
2396+ /* output */
2397+ __be16 h_vlan_proto;
2398+ __be16 h_vlan_TCI;
2399+ __u8 smac[6]; /* ETH_ALEN */
2400+ __u8 dmac[6]; /* ETH_ALEN */
2401+};
2402+
23242403 #endif /* _UAPI__LINUX_BPF_H__ */