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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	jhs@mojatatu•com, jiri@resnulli•us, tgraf@suug•ch,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] tc: make ingress and egress qdiscs consistent
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:54:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55255D48.7040408@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55255AE0.2060606@plumgrid.com>

On 04/08/2015 06:44 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 4/8/15 9:32 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
>> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:26:36 -0700
>>
>>> My preference is to add 'needs_l2' flag to ingress qdisc.
>>
>> The problem is that needs_l2 is not property of individual qdisc,
>> but conditionally 1 or more things sitting behind it.
>>
>> You can mix u32 and bpf classifiers.  One wants need_L2 another
>> does not, and you therefore cannot handle this problem in this
>> manner.
>
> that is still ok.
> I'm proposing multiple flags. One for ingress qdisc and another
> flag for all cls/acts whether they care about l2 or not.
> Then when cls is attached to ingress_with_l2 we will check whether
> this cls is ready or not.
> so cls_bpf will have flag L2_ONLY
> whereas cls_u32 will be L2 | L3
> and 50% of other cls/acts will be L2 | L3
> some cls/acts will be L3 only until they're fixed.
>
> The users will create ingress qdisc with 'needs_l2' flag only
> when they need to attach cls_bpf to it. All existing users
> won't notice the change.

I think that could work, it would also allow for keeping compat
with the existing users.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-08 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08  1:03 [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] net: introduce skb_postpush_rcsum() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08  1:03 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] tc: make ingress and egress qdiscs consistent Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08  2:35   ` David Miller
2015-04-08  3:22     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08  4:48       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08  8:36         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08  9:05           ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-08 10:54             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 11:14               ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 11:47                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-08 12:31                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 12:58                     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-08 13:14                       ` Thomas Graf
2015-04-08 13:27                         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 13:34                           ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-08 13:41                             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 13:47                               ` Thomas Graf
2015-04-08 13:52                               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-08 14:53                                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-08 16:26                                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08 16:32                                   ` David Miller
2015-04-08 16:44                                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08 16:54                                       ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-04-08 11:43   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-08  7:25 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] net: introduce skb_postpush_rcsum() helper Daniel Borkmann

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