Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/smc: Add autocork support

From: "dust.li" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:02:53 +0800

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 07:57:31PM +0100, Karsten Graul wrote:
>On 19/02/2022 00:42, dust.li wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Karsten Graul wrote:
>>> Right now for me it looks like there is no way to use netlink for container runtime
>>> configuration, which is a pity.
>>> We continue our discussions about this in the team, and also here on the list.
>> 
>> Many thanks for your time on this topic !
>
>We checked more specs (like Container Network Interface (CNI) Specification) 
>but all we found uses sysctl at the end. There is lot of infrastructure 
>to use sysctls in a container environment.
>
>Establishing netlink-like controls for containers is by far out of our scope, and
>would take a long time until it would be available in the popular projects.
>
>So at the moment I see no alternative to an additional sysctl interface in the 
>SMC module that provides controls which are useful in container environments.

Got it, I will add sysctl interface and a switch with this function.

Thank again !