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Commit d6247ecb authored by David Vernet's avatar David Vernet Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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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: default avatarDavid Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231004162339.200702-2-void@manifault.com
parent 84cb9cbd
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