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Joe Stringer 1a986518b8 docs/bpf: Add LRU internals description and graph
Extend the bpf hashmap docs to include a brief description of the
internals of the LRU map type (setting appropriate API expectations),
including the original commit message from Martin and a variant on the
graph that I had presented during my Linux Plumbers Conference 2022
talk on "Pressure feedback for LRU map types"[0].

The node names in the dot file correspond roughly to the functions
where the logic for those decisions or steps is defined, to help
curious developers to cross-reference and update this logic if the
details of the LRU implementation ever differ from this description.

  [0] https://lpc.events/event/16/contributions/1368/

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230422172054.3355436-2-joe@isovalent.com
2023-04-27 14:20:44 +02:00