bumping ebpf insn to 1m

mc36 cs at mp.ls
Tue Jun 21 03:33:57 PDT 2022


hi,

first of all, i'm very happy to see ebgp will arrive to openwrt 22.03!
but, could you please bump the ebpf instructions to 1m? according to
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/docs/kernel-versions.md
the kernel already have it, but when i try to load a bigger program i get:

BPF program is too large. Processed 1000001 insn
processed 1000001 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 56 total_states 51016 peak_states 1837 mark_read 61
-- END PROG LOAD LOG --
libbpf: prog 'xdp_router': program too large (5415 insns), at most 4096 insns
libbpf: failed to load program 'xdp_router'
libbpf: failed to load object '/usr/sbin/p4xdp_kern.bin'
error loading code

whereas the same loads on a fresh debian/sid and performs everything as needed...

if i change the
https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/blob/e5b738056a0c0dc3dc4868c0bd8416418f7133aa/misc/native/p4xdp_kern.c#L278
to something smaller, let's say 2, then it loads fine one openwrt too, and passes almost all the ~500 integration
tests except those who require a mode depth packet processing like http://sources.freertr.org/cfg/p4lang-rout041.tst
(basically you can think about this loop as recirculation in the real forwarding engines, but here,
unrolled, because the current version ebpf verifier does not like backward jumps:)

about my plans:

for now, btw, i'm happy with the 2 but, as openwrt will have ebpf, and, rare/freerouter
recently got stacking capability, i'm planning to add more features to the p4xdp dataplane
to mark green on https://wiki.geant.org/display/RARE/Home because this makes the p4xdp
dataplane a real thing... (before i considered it as a technical demonstration:)

for now, i already stacked all my openwrts to my nearest p4dpdk nodes (up to some 10gbps),
who btw already stacked to my single tofion node... (it's an programmable asic up to 12tbps)
this means in short that all of these above mentioned nodes configured from a single
location, the mac learning and so also performed on that single router... the underlay
between the dataplanes could be anything including tunnels, because the stacking uses
regular mpls labels internally on the backplane links...

regarding the openwrts role, their p4xdp get programmed via regular api messages common
between all the above mentioned dataplanes... the openwrts just pick all the packets from
their wlan interfaces, and according to the configured bridge-domain on the controlling router,
they perform the packet rewrites needed to reach the point where the routing, filtering, natting,
etc will happen to the packets... (these are usually different nodes, btw)
this also means that i can freely roam between my openwrts connected over a routed network...

thanks,
csaba




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