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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital•net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel•org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@gmail•com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger•kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] bpf: allow bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:18:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555BD2E4.5050608@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVP=7sCM12cCZVZCCMozGcHyqTsOFvjv7cEpc7Frxj4Xg@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/19/15 5:13 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> IMO this is starting to get a bit ugly.  Would it be possible to have
> the program dereference the subprogram reference itself from the jump
> table?  There would have to be a verifier type that represents a
> reference to a program tail-call entry point, but that seems better
> than having this weird indirection.

Which part? I don't think you've looked at examples yet.
network parser has to call itself. Otherwise we cannot parse 10 mpls
labels or TLVs.
Indirection via jump_table also has to be there.
We need to dynamically add and remove programs form this jump table.
It cannot be all static.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 23:59 [PATCH net-next 0/4] bpf: introduce bpf_tail_call() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-19 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] x86: bpf_jit: implement " Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-20  0:11   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20  0:14     ` Alexei Starovoitov
     [not found]       ` <555BD1E9.5000000-uqk4Ao+rVK5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-20 16:05         ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]           ` <CALCETrV8CStuwvDXDPp5zsZw5FsSpYWBDXMYjLh6Qq703a=cgQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-20 16:29             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-19 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] samples/bpf: bpf_tail_call example for tracing Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-19 23:59 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] samples/bpf: bpf_tail_call example for networking Alexei Starovoitov
     [not found] ` <1432079946-9878-1-git-send-email-ast-uqk4Ao+rVK5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-19 23:59   ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] bpf: allow bpf programs to tail-call other bpf programs Alexei Starovoitov
     [not found]     ` <1432079946-9878-2-git-send-email-ast-uqk4Ao+rVK5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-20  0:13       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-20  0:18         ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
     [not found]           ` <555BD2E4.5050608-uqk4Ao+rVK5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-21 16:20             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-21 16:40               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-21 16:43                 ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                   ` <CALCETrX7xAuRoRv7WV+LS-r_pOknQdXPpBEbFy5TqB_6eGTD5Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-21 16:53                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-21 16:57                       ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                         ` <CALCETrWLpL8o9=P0sDGXUgcQ_LOkgJGrVdv0R6eaec=+WHPfkg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-21 17:16                           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-21 16:17       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-05-21 21:08   ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] bpf: introduce bpf_tail_call() helper David Miller

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