bpf: introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH map

Introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH map type which is used to do
accurate counters without need to use BPF_XADD instruction which turned
out to be too costly for high-performance network monitoring.
In the typical use case the 'key' is the flow tuple or other long
living object that sees a lot of events per second.

bpf_map_lookup_elem() returns per-cpu area.
Example:
struct {
  u32 packets;
  u32 bytes;
} * ptr = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&map, &key);
/* ptr points to this_cpu area of the value, so the following
 * increments will not collide with other cpus
 */
ptr->packets ++;
ptr->bytes += skb->len;

bpf_update_elem() atomically creates a new element where all per-cpu
values are zero initialized and this_cpu value is populated with
given 'value'.
Note that non-per-cpu hash map always allocates new element
and then deletes old after rcu grace period to maintain atomicity
of update. Per-cpu hash map updates element values in-place.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Chatur27 <jasonbright2709@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 9ea2d22fa2cb..2ff557417235 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ enum bpf_map_type {
 	BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY,
 	BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY,
 	BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY,
+	BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH,
 };
 
 enum bpf_prog_type {