We have a unit test that invokes an XDP program with 1m different
inputs, aka 1m BPF_PROG_RUN syscalls. We run this test concurrently
with slight variations in how we generated the input.
Since commit f23c4b3924 ("bpf: Start using the BPF dispatcher in BPF_TEST_RUN")
the unit test has slowed down significantly. Digging deeper reveals that
the concurrent tests are serialised in the kernel on the XDP dispatcher.
This is a global resource that is protected by a mutex, on which we contend.
Fix this by not calling into the XDP dispatcher if we only want to perform
a single run of the BPF program.
See: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CACAyw9_y4QumOW35qpgTbLsJ532uGq-kVW-VESJzGyiZkypnvw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210928093100.27124-1-lmb@cloudflare.com
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