There are some use-cases where it is desirable to use bpf_redirect()
in combination with ifb device, which currently is not supported, for
example, around filtering inbound traffic with BPF to then push it to
ifb which holds the qdisc for shaping in contrast to doing that on the
egress device.
Toke mentions the following case related to OpenWrt:
Because there's not always a single egress on the other side. These are
mainly home routers, which tend to have one or more WiFi devices bridged
to one or more ethernet ports on the LAN side, and a single upstream WAN
port. And the objective is to control the total amount of traffic going
over the WAN link (in both directions), to deal with bufferbloat in the
ISP network (which is sadly still all too prevalent).
In this setup, the traffic can be split arbitrarily between the links
on the LAN side, and the only "single bottleneck" is the WAN link. So we
install both egress and ingress shapers on this, configured to something
like 95-98% of the true link bandwidth, thus moving the queues into the
qdisc layer in the router. It's usually necessary to set the ingress
bandwidth shaper a bit lower than the egress due to being "downstream"
of the bottleneck link, but it does work surprisingly well.
We usually use something like a matchall filter to put all ingress
traffic on the ifb, so doing the redirect from BPF has not been an
immediate requirement thus far. However, it does seem a bit odd that
this is not possible, and we do have a BPF-based filter that layers on
top of this kind of setup, which currently uses u32 as the ingress
filter and so it could presumably be improved to use BPF instead if
that was available.
Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/qosify.git;a=blob;f=README
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/875y9yzbuy.fsf@toke.dk
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8cebc8b2b6e967e10cbafe2ffd6795050e74accd.1681739137.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
