For now, we have to call some helpers when we need to update the csum, such as bpf_l4_csum_replace, bpf_l3_csum_replace, etc. These helpers are not inlined, which causes poor performance.
In fact, we can define our own csum update functions in BPF program instead of bpf_l3_csum_replace, which is totally inlined and efficient. However, we can't do this for bpf_l4_csum_replace for now, as we can't update skb->csum, which can cause skb->csum invalid in the rx path with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE mode.
What's more, we can't use the direct data access and have to use skb_store_bytes() with the BPF_F_RECOMPUTE_CSUM flag in some case, such as modifing the vni in the vxlan header and the underlay udp header has no checksum.
In the first patch, we make skb->csum readable and writable, and we make skb->ip_summed readable. For now, for tc only. With these 2 fields, we don't need to call bpf helpers for csum update any more.
In the second patch, we add some testcases for the read/write testing for skb->csum and skb->ip_summed.
If this series is acceptable, we can define the inlined functions for csum update in libbpf in the next step.
Menglong Dong (2): bpf: add csum/ip_summed fields to __sk_buff testcases/bpf: add testcases for skb->csum to ctx_skb.c
include/linux/skbuff.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 2 + net/core/filter.c | 22 ++++++++++ tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 2 + .../testing/selftests/bpf/verifier/ctx_skb.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+)