filter: optimize accesses to ancillary data
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:45:28 +0000 (19:45 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:30:12 +0000 (12:30 -0800)
We can translate pseudo load instructions at filter check time to
dedicated instructions to speed up filtering and avoid one switch().
libpcap currently uses SKF_AD_PROTOCOL, but custom filters probably use
other ancillary accesses.

Note : I made the assertion that ancillary data was always accessed with
BPF_LD|BPF_?|BPF_ABS instructions, not with BPF_LD|BPF_?|BPF_IND ones
(offset given by K constant, not by K + X register)

On x86_64, this saves a few bytes of text :

# size net/core/filter.o.*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4864       0       0    4864    1300 net/core/filter.o.new
   4944       0       0    4944    1350 net/core/filter.o.old

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/filter.c

index e8a6ac4..2b27d4e 100644 (file)
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ enum {
        BPF_S_JMP_JGT_X,
        BPF_S_JMP_JSET_K,
        BPF_S_JMP_JSET_X,
+       /* Ancillary data */
+       BPF_S_ANC_PROTOCOL,
+       BPF_S_ANC_PKTTYPE,
+       BPF_S_ANC_IFINDEX,
+       BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR,
+       BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST,
+       BPF_S_ANC_MARK,
+       BPF_S_ANC_QUEUE,
+       BPF_S_ANC_HATYPE,
+       BPF_S_ANC_RXHASH,
+       BPF_S_ANC_CPU,
 };
 
 /* No hurry in this branch */
@@ -107,11 +118,7 @@ static inline void *load_pointer(const struct sk_buff *skb, int k,
 {
        if (k >= 0)
                return skb_header_pointer(skb, k, size, buffer);
-       else {
-               if (k >= SKF_AD_OFF)
-                       return NULL;
-               return __load_pointer(skb, k, size);
-       }
+       return __load_pointer(skb, k, size);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -269,7 +276,7 @@ load_w:
                                A = get_unaligned_be32(ptr);
                                continue;
                        }
-                       break;
+                       return 0;
                case BPF_S_LD_H_ABS:
                        k = K;
 load_h:
@@ -278,7 +285,7 @@ load_h:
                                A = get_unaligned_be16(ptr);
                                continue;
                        }
-                       break;
+                       return 0;
                case BPF_S_LD_B_ABS:
                        k = K;
 load_b:
@@ -287,7 +294,7 @@ load_b:
                                A = *(u8 *)ptr;
                                continue;
                        }
-                       break;
+                       return 0;
                case BPF_S_LD_W_LEN:
                        A = skb->len;
                        continue;
@@ -338,45 +345,35 @@ load_b:
                case BPF_S_STX:
                        mem[K] = X;
                        continue;
-               default:
-                       WARN_ON(1);
-                       return 0;
-               }
-
-               /*
-                * Handle ancillary data, which are impossible
-                * (or very difficult) to get parsing packet contents.
-                */
-               switch (k-SKF_AD_OFF) {
-               case SKF_AD_PROTOCOL:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_PROTOCOL:
                        A = ntohs(skb->protocol);
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_PKTTYPE:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_PKTTYPE:
                        A = skb->pkt_type;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_IFINDEX:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_IFINDEX:
                        if (!skb->dev)
                                return 0;
                        A = skb->dev->ifindex;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_MARK:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_MARK:
                        A = skb->mark;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_QUEUE:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_QUEUE:
                        A = skb->queue_mapping;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_HATYPE:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_HATYPE:
                        if (!skb->dev)
                                return 0;
                        A = skb->dev->type;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_RXHASH:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_RXHASH:
                        A = skb->rxhash;
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_CPU:
+               case BPF_S_ANC_CPU:
                        A = raw_smp_processor_id();
                        continue;
-               case SKF_AD_NLATTR: {
+               case BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR: {
                        struct nlattr *nla;
 
                        if (skb_is_nonlinear(skb))
@@ -392,7 +389,7 @@ load_b:
                                A = 0;
                        continue;
                }
-               case SKF_AD_NLATTR_NEST: {
+               case BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST: {
                        struct nlattr *nla;
 
                        if (skb_is_nonlinear(skb))
@@ -412,6 +409,7 @@ load_b:
                        continue;
                }
                default:
+                       WARN_ON(1);
                        return 0;
                }
        }
@@ -600,6 +598,24 @@ int sk_chk_filter(struct sock_filter *filter, int flen)
                            pc + ftest->jf + 1 >= flen)
                                return -EINVAL;
                        break;
+               case BPF_S_LD_W_ABS:
+               case BPF_S_LD_H_ABS:
+               case BPF_S_LD_B_ABS:
+#define ANCILLARY(CODE) case SKF_AD_OFF + SKF_AD_##CODE:       \
+                               code = BPF_S_ANC_##CODE;        \
+                               break
+                       switch (ftest->k) {
+                       ANCILLARY(PROTOCOL);
+                       ANCILLARY(PKTTYPE);
+                       ANCILLARY(IFINDEX);
+                       ANCILLARY(NLATTR);
+                       ANCILLARY(NLATTR_NEST);
+                       ANCILLARY(MARK);
+                       ANCILLARY(QUEUE);
+                       ANCILLARY(HATYPE);
+                       ANCILLARY(RXHASH);
+                       ANCILLARY(CPU);
+                       }
                }
                ftest->code = code;
        }