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netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links: - source netns - where the netlink socket resides, - target netns - where to put the device being created, - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend), - peer netns - netns of peer device. Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net" parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request. +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | source | target | | absent +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | link | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | peer | target | | present +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | peer | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects, including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events. These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from the beginning. On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use dev_net instead. To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use of src_net are converted to params->net trivially. Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-19 20:50:28 +08:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links: - source netns - where the netlink socket resides, - target netns - where to put the device being created, - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend), - peer netns - netns of peer device. Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net" parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request. +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | source | target | | absent +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | link | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | peer | target | | present +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | peer | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects, including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events. These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from the beginning. On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use dev_net instead. To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use of src_net are converted to params->net trivially. Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-19 20:50:28 +08:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links: - source netns - where the netlink socket resides, - target netns - where to put the device being created, - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend), - peer netns - netns of peer device. Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net" parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request. +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | source | target | | absent +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | link | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | peer | target | | present +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | peer | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects, including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events. These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from the beginning. On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use dev_net instead. To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use of src_net are converted to params->net trivially. Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-19 20:50:28 +08:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
rtnetlink: Pack newlink() params into struct There are 4 net namespaces involved when creating links: - source netns - where the netlink socket resides, - target netns - where to put the device being created, - link netns - netns associated with the device (backend), - peer netns - netns of peer device. Currently, two nets are passed to newlink() callback - "src_net" parameter and "dev_net" (implicitly in net_device). They are set as follows, depending on netlink attributes in the request. +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | peer netns | IFLA_LINK_NETNSID | src_net | dev_net | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | source | target | | absent +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | link | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ | | absent | peer | target | | present +-------------------+---------+---------+ | | present | peer | link | +------------+-------------------+---------+---------+ When IFLA_LINK_NETNSID is present, the device is created in link netns first and then moved to target netns. This has some side effects, including extra ifindex allocation, ifname validation and link events. These could be avoided if we create it in target netns from the beginning. On the other hand, the meaning of src_net parameter is ambiguous. It varies depending on how parameters are passed. It is the effective link (or peer netns) by design, but some drivers ignore it and use dev_net instead. To provide more netns context for drivers, this patch packs existing newlink() parameters, along with the source netns, link netns and peer netns, into a struct. The old "src_net" is renamed to "net" to avoid confusion with real source netns, and will be deprecated later. The use of src_net are converted to params->net trivially. Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219125039.18024-3-shaw.leon@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-02-19 20:50:28 +08:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit: Add option for scrubbing skb meta data Jordan reported that when running Cilium with netkit in per-endpoint-routes mode, network policy misclassifies traffic. In this direct routing mode of Cilium which is used in case of GKE/EKS/AKS, the Pod's BPF program to enforce policy sits on the netkit primary device's egress side. The issue here is that in case of netkit's netkit_prep_forward(), it will clear meta data such as skb->mark and skb->priority before executing the BPF program. Thus, identity data stored in there from earlier BPF programs (e.g. from tcx ingress on the physical device) gets cleared instead of being made available for the primary's program to process. While for traffic egressing the Pod via the peer device this might be desired, this is different for the primary one where compared to tcx egress on the host veth this information would be available. To address this, add a new parameter for the device orchestration to allow control of skb->mark and skb->priority scrubbing, to make the two accessible from BPF (and eventually leave it up to the program to scrub). By default, the current behavior is retained. For netkit peer this also enables the use case where applications could cooperate/signal intent to the BPF program. Note that struct netkit has a 4 byte hole between policy and bundle which is used here, in other words, struct netkit's first cacheline content used in fast-path does not get moved around. Fixes: 35dfaad7188c ("netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device") Reported-by: Jordan Rife <jrife@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/34042 Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241004101335.117711-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2024-10-04 12:13:31 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00
netkit, bpf: Add bpf programmable net device This work adds a new, minimal BPF-programmable device called "netkit" (former PoC code-name "meta") we recently presented at LSF/MM/BPF. The core idea is that BPF programs are executed within the drivers xmit routine and therefore e.g. in case of containers/Pods moving BPF processing closer to the source. One of the goals was that in case of Pod egress traffic, this allows to move BPF programs from hostns tcx ingress into the device itself, providing earlier drop or forward mechanisms, for example, if the BPF program determines that the skb must be sent out of the node, then a redirect to the physical device can take place directly without going through per-CPU backlog queue. This helps to shift processing for such traffic from softirq to process context, leading to better scheduling decisions/performance (see measurements in the slides). In this initial version, the netkit device ships as a pair, but we plan to extend this further so it can also operate in single device mode. The pair comes with a primary and a peer device. Only the primary device, typically residing in hostns, can manage BPF programs for itself and its peer. The peer device is designated for containers/Pods and cannot attach/detach BPF programs. Upon the device creation, the user can set the default policy to 'pass' or 'drop' for the case when no BPF program is attached. Additionally, the device can be operated in L3 (default) or L2 mode. The management of BPF programs is done via bpf_mprog, so that multi-attach is supported right from the beginning with similar API and dependency controls as tcx. For details on the latter see commit 053c8e1f235d ("bpf: Add generic attach/detach/query API for multi-progs"). tc BPF compatibility is provided, so that existing programs can be easily migrated. Going forward, we plan to use netkit devices in Cilium as the main device type for connecting Pods. They will be operated in L3 mode in order to simplify a Pod's neighbor management and the peer will operate in default drop mode, so that no traffic is leaving between the time when a Pod is brought up by the CNI plugin and programs attached by the agent. Additionally, the programs we attach via tcx on the physical devices are using bpf_redirect_peer() for inbound traffic into netkit device, hence the latter is also supporting the ndo_get_peer_dev callback. Similarly, we use bpf_redirect_neigh() for the way out, pushing from netkit peer to phys device directly. Also, BIG TCP is supported on netkit device. For the follow-up work in single device mode, we plan to convert Cilium's cilium_host/_net devices into a single one. An extensive test suite for checking device operations and the BPF program and link management API comes as BPF selftests in this series. Co-developed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/borkmann/iproute2/tree/pr/netkit Link: http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2023_material/tcx_meta_netdev_borkmann.pdf (24ff.) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024214904.29825-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
2023-10-24 23:48:58 +02:00