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There are some use-cases where it is desirable to use bpf_redirect() in combination with ifb device, which currently is not supported, for example, around filtering inbound traffic with BPF to then push it to ifb which holds the qdisc for shaping in contrast to doing that on the egress device. Toke mentions the following case related to OpenWrt: Because there's not always a single egress on the other side. These are mainly home routers, which tend to have one or more WiFi devices bridged to one or more ethernet ports on the LAN side, and a single upstream WAN port. And the objective is to control the total amount of traffic going over the WAN link (in both directions), to deal with bufferbloat in the ISP network (which is sadly still all too prevalent). In this setup, the traffic can be split arbitrarily between the links on the LAN side, and the only "single bottleneck" is the WAN link. So we install both egress and ingress shapers on this, configured to something like 95-98% of the true link bandwidth, thus moving the queues into the qdisc layer in the router. It's usually necessary to set the ingress bandwidth shaper a bit lower than the egress due to being "downstream" of the bottleneck link, but it does work surprisingly well. We usually use something like a matchall filter to put all ingress traffic on the ifb, so doing the redirect from BPF has not been an immediate requirement thus far. However, it does seem a bit odd that this is not possible, and we do have a BPF-based filter that layers on top of this kind of setup, which currently uses u32 as the ingress filter and so it could presumably be improved to use BPF instead if that was available. Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Reported-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Reported-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Link: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/qosify.git;a=blob;f=README Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/875y9yzbuy.fsf@toke.dk Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8cebc8b2b6e967e10cbafe2ffd6795050e74accd.1681739137.git.daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@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.