bpf: Add ability to pin bpf timer to calling CPU

BPF supports creating high resolution timers using bpf_timer_* helper
functions. Currently, only the BPF_F_TIMER_ABS flag is supported, which
specifies that the timeout should be interpreted as absolute time. It
would also be useful to be able to pin that timer to a core. For
example, if you wanted to make a subset of cores run without timer
interrupts, and only have the timer be invoked on a single core.

This patch adds support for this with a new BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN flag.
When specified, the HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED flag is passed to
hrtimer_start(). A subsequent patch will update selftests to validate.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231004162339.200702-2-void@manifault.com
This commit is contained in:
David Vernet
2023-10-04 11:23:38 -05:00
committed by Daniel Borkmann
parent 84cb9cbd91
commit d6247ecb6c
3 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_start, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, u64, nsecs, u64, fla
if (in_nmi())
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (flags > BPF_F_TIMER_ABS)
if (flags & ~(BPF_F_TIMER_ABS | BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN))
return -EINVAL;
__bpf_spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock);
t = timer->timer;
@@ -1286,6 +1286,9 @@ BPF_CALL_3(bpf_timer_start, struct bpf_timer_kern *, timer, u64, nsecs, u64, fla
else
mode = HRTIMER_MODE_REL_SOFT;
if (flags & BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN)
mode |= HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED;
hrtimer_start(&t->timer, ns_to_ktime(nsecs), mode);
out:
__bpf_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer->lock);