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libbpf: add support for using AF_XDP sockets

This commit adds AF_XDP support to libbpf. The main reason for this is
to facilitate writing applications that use AF_XDP by offering
higher-level APIs that hide many of the details of the AF_XDP
uapi. This is in the same vein as libbpf facilitates XDP adoption by
offering easy-to-use higher level interfaces of XDP
functionality. Hopefully this will facilitate adoption of AF_XDP, make
applications using it simpler and smaller, and finally also make it
possible for applications to benefit from optimizations in the AF_XDP
user space access code. Previously, people just copied and pasted the
code from the sample application into their application, which is not
desirable.

The interface is composed of two parts:

* Low-level access interface to the four rings and the packet
* High-level control plane interface for creating and setting
  up umems and af_xdp sockets as well as a simple XDP program.

Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Este cometimento está contido em:
Magnus Karlsson
2019-02-21 10:21:26 +01:00
cometido por Daniel Borkmann
ascendente 740f8a6572
cometimento 1cad078842
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ described here. It's recommended to follow these conventions whenever a
new function or type is added to keep libbpf API clean and consistent.
All types and functions provided by libbpf API should have one of the
following prefixes: ``bpf_``, ``btf_``, ``libbpf_``.
following prefixes: ``bpf_``, ``btf_``, ``libbpf_``, ``xsk_``.
System call wrappers
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@@ -62,6 +62,19 @@ Auxiliary functions and types that don't fit well in any of categories
described above should have ``libbpf_`` prefix, e.g.
``libbpf_get_error`` or ``libbpf_prog_type_by_name``.
AF_XDP functions
-------------------
AF_XDP functions should have an ``xsk_`` prefix, e.g.
``xsk_umem__get_data`` or ``xsk_umem__create``. The interface consists
of both low-level ring access functions and high-level configuration
functions. These can be mixed and matched. Note that these functions
are not reentrant for performance reasons.
Please take a look at Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst in the Linux
kernel source tree on how to use XDP sockets and for some common
mistakes in case you do not get any traffic up to user space.
libbpf ABI
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