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authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2022-09-02 14:10:52 -0700
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2022-09-05 15:33:06 +0200
commit4ab67149f3c6e97c5c506a726f0ebdec38241679 (patch)
treecef5bd8102787075a2766028587d49a917053433 /scripts/bpf_doc.py
parent8d5a8011b35d387c490a5c977b1d9eb4798aa071 (diff)
bpf: Add percpu allocation support to bpf_mem_alloc.
Extend bpf_mem_alloc to cache free list of fixed size per-cpu allocations. Once such cache is created bpf_mem_cache_alloc() will return per-cpu objects. bpf_mem_cache_free() will free them back into global per-cpu pool after observing RCU grace period. per-cpu flavor of bpf_mem_alloc is going to be used by per-cpu hash maps. The free list cache consists of tuples { llist_node, per-cpu pointer } Unlike alloc_percpu() that returns per-cpu pointer the bpf_mem_cache_alloc() returns a pointer to per-cpu pointer and bpf_mem_cache_free() expects to receive it back. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220902211058.60789-11-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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