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authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>2017-08-17 18:22:37 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-08-18 16:18:40 -0700
commit4c03bdd7b5c084c3c6973cb2419edac5363c051f (patch)
tree77e091a3b5de3c55433947ec41891ba2b1e52019 /include/linux/gcd.h
parentd2cee2e5d0106abb5da25f393b3c50e0bb01f7f9 (diff)
xdp: adjust xdp redirect tracepoint to include return error code
The return error code need to be included in the tracepoint xdp:xdp_redirect, else its not possible to distinguish successful or failed XDP_REDIRECT transmits. XDP have no queuing mechanism. Thus, it is fairly easily to overrun a NIC transmit queue. The eBPF program invoking helpers (bpf_redirect or bpf_redirect_map) to redirect a packet doesn't get any feedback whether the packet was actually transmitted. Info on failed transmits in the tracepoint xdp:xdp_redirect, is interesting as this opens for providing a feedback-loop to the receiving XDP program. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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