[RFC PATCH v2 5/5] docs: Added eBPF documentation.

[Andrew Melnychenko]

From: Andrew <andrew@daynix.com>

Also, added maintainers information.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@daynix.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS       |   7 +++
 docs/ebpf_rss.rst | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 140 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/ebpf_rss.rst

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2c22bbca5a..d93c85b867 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3111,6 +3111,13 @@ S: Maintained
 F: hw/semihosting/
 F: include/hw/semihosting/
 
+EBPF:
+M: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
+R: Andrew Melnychenko <andrew@daynix.com>
+R: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@daynix.com>
+S: Maintained
+F: ebpf/*
+
 Build and test automation
 -------------------------
 Build and test automation
diff --git a/docs/ebpf_rss.rst b/docs/ebpf_rss.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f832defdf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/ebpf_rss.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+===========================
+eBPF RSS virtio-net support
+===========================
+
+RSS(Receive Side Scaling) is used to distribute network packets to guest 
virtqueues
+by calculating packet hash. Usually every queue is processed then by a 
specific guest CPU core.
+
+For now there are 2 RSS implementations in qemu:
+- 'in-qemu' RSS (functions if qemu receives network packets, i.e. vhost=off)
+- eBPF RSS (can function with also with vhost=on)
+
+eBPF support (CONFIG_EBPF) is enabled by 'configure' script.
+To enable eBPF RSS support use './configure --enable-bpf'.
+
+If steering BPF is not set for kernel's TUN module, the TUN uses automatic 
selection
+of rx virtqueue based on lookup table built according to calculated symmetric 
hash
+of transmitted packets.
+If steering BPF is set for TUN the BPF code calculates the hash of packet 
header and
+returns the virtqueue number to place the packet to.
+
+Simplified decision formula:
+
+.. code:: C
+
+    queue_index = indirection_table[hash(<packet data>)%<indirection_table 
size>]
+
+
+Not for all packets, the hash can/should be calculated.
+
+Note: currently, eBPF RSS does not support hash reporting.
+
+eBPF RSS turned on by different combinations of vhost-net, vitrio-net and tap 
configurations:
+
+- eBPF is used:
+
+        tap,vhost=off & virtio-net-pci,rss=on,hash=off
+
+- eBPF is used:
+
+        tap,vhost=on & virtio-net-pci,rss=on,hash=off
+
+- 'in-qemu' RSS is used:
+
+        tap,vhost=off & virtio-net-pci,rss=on,hash=on
+
+- eBPF is used, hash population feature is not reported to the guest:
+
+        tap,vhost=on & virtio-net-pci,rss=on,hash=on
+
+If CONFIG_EBPF is not set then only 'in-qemu' RSS is supported.
+Also 'in-qemu' RSS, as a fallback, is used if the eBPF program failed to load 
or set to TUN.
+
+RSS eBPF program
+----------------
+
+RSS program located in ebpf/tun_rss_steering.h as an array of 'struct 
bpf_insn'.
+So the program is part of the qemu binary.
+Initially, the eBPF program was compiled by clang and source code located at 
ebpf/rss.bpf.c.
+Prerequisites to recompile the eBPF program (regenerate 
ebpf/tun_rss_steering.h):
+
+        llvm, clang, kernel source tree, python3 + (pip3 pyelftools)
+        Adjust 'linuxhdrs' in Makefile.ebpf to reflect the location of the 
kernel source tree
+
+        $ cd ebpf
+        $ make -f Makefile.ebpf
+
+Note the python script for convertation from eBPF ELF object to '.h' file - 
Ebpf_to_C.py:
+
+        $ python EbpfElf_to_C.py rss.bpf.o tun_rss_steering
+
+The first argument of the script is ELF object, second - section name where 
the eBPF program located.
+The script would generate <section name>.h file with eBPF instructions and 
'relocate array'.
+'relocate array' is an array of 'struct fixup_mapfd_t' with the name of the 
eBPF map and instruction offset where the file descriptor of the map should be 
placed.
+
+Current eBPF RSS implementation uses 'bounded loops' with 'backward jump 
instructions' which present in the last kernels.
+Overall eBPF RSS works on kernels 5.8+.
+
+eBPF RSS implementation
+-----------------------
+
+eBPF RSS loading functionality located in ebpf/ebpf_rss.c and ebpf/ebpf_rss.h.
+
+The `struct EBPFRSSContext` structure that holds 4 file descriptors:
+
+- ctx - pointer of the libbpf context.
+- program_fd - file descriptor of the eBPF RSS program.
+- map_configuration - file descriptor of the 'configuration' map. This map 
contains one element of 'struct EBPFRSSConfig'. This configuration determines 
eBPF program behavior.
+- map_toeplitz_key - file descriptor of the 'Toeplitz key' map. One element of 
the 40byte key prepared for the hashing algorithm.
+- map_indirections_table - 128 elements of queue indexes.
+
+`struct EBPFRSSConfig` fields:
+
+- redirect - "boolean" value, should the hash be calculated, on false  - 
`default_queue` would be used as the final decision.
+- populate_hash - for now, not used. eBPF RSS doesn't support hash reporting.
+- hash_types - binary mask of different hash types. See 
`VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_*` defines. If for packet hash should not be 
calculated - `default_queue` would be used.
+- indirections_len - length of the indirections table, maximum 128.
+- default_queue - the queue index that used for packet that shouldn't be 
hashed. For some packets, the hash can't be calculated(g.e ARP).
+
+Functions:
+
+- `ebpf_rss_init()` - sets ctx to NULL, which indicates that EBPFRSSContext is 
not loaded.
+- `ebpf_rss_load()` - creates 3 maps and loads eBPF program from 
tun_rss_steering.h. Returns 'true' on success. After that, program_fd can be 
used to set steering for TAP.
+- `ebpf_rss_set_all()` - sets values for eBPF maps. `indirections_table` 
length is in EBPFRSSConfig. `toeplitz_key` is VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE aka 
40 bytes array.
+- `ebpf_rss_unload()` - close all file descriptors and set ctx to NULL.
+
+Simplified eBPF RSS workflow:
+
+.. code:: C
+
+    struct EBPFRSSConfig config;
+    config.redirect = 1;
+    config.hash_types = VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_UDPv4 | 
VIRTIO_NET_RSS_HASH_TYPE_TCPv4;
+    config.indirections_len = VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_TABLE_LEN;
+    config.default_queue = 0;
+
+    uint16_t table[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_TABLE_LEN] = {...};
+    uint8_t key[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE] = {...};
+
+    struct EBPFRSSContext ctx;
+    ebpf_rss_init(&ctx);
+    ebpf_rss_load(&ctx);
+    ebpf_rss_set_all(&ctx, &config, table, key);
+    if (net_client->info->set_steering_ebpf != NULL) {
+        net_client->info->set_steering_ebpf(net_client, ctx->program_fd);
+    }
+    ...
+    ebpf_unload(&ctx);
+
+
+NetClientState SetSteeringEBPF()
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+For now, `set_steering_ebpf()` method supported by Linux TAP NetClientState. 
The method requires an eBPF program file descriptor as an argument.
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