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Most BPF programs are small, but they consume a page each. For systems with busy traffic and many BPF programs, this could add significant pressure to instruction TLB. High iTLB pressure usually causes slow down for the whole system, which includes visible performance degradation for production workloads. Introduce bpf_prog_pack allocator to pack multiple BPF programs in a huge page. The memory is then allocated in 64 byte chunks. Memory allocated by bpf_prog_pack allocator is RO protected after initial allocation. To write to it, the user (jit engine) need to use text poke API. Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220204185742.271030-8-song@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.