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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net_sched: Introduce skbmod action
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:08:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578CAA96.2090501@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <578CA4EB.7060703@iogearbox.net>

On 16-07-18 05:44 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 07/18/2016 08:51 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 16-07-18 12:19 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> Looking at that just out of curiosity on how complex it could look
> for src/dst mac, is it actually functional in iproute2 upstream tree?
>

No it is a bunch of bash script wrapping we did on top of pedit (which
should be no different than adding it to m_pedit as an extension).
We started there then decided that this feature is mostly used with
mirred all the time - so modified  mirred.

> All I see is that pedit can look up 3rd party modules via get_pedit_kind(),
> so it will pick p_%s.so, if built as such, and there's code for p_ip,
> p_tcp, p_udp, p_icmp. But then, for example, all I see in p_udp.c is
> since initial iproute2 import in 2005, apart from some cleanups by
> Stephen:
>

Yes, IP and tcp should be fine. Others were place holders.
Note, there is even no need to change pedit - you could write a bash
script as we did.

> static int
> parse_udp(int *argc_p, char ***argv_p, struct tc_pedit_sel *sel, struct
> tc_pedit_key *tkey)
> {
>      int res = -1;
>      return res;
> }
>
> struct m_pedit_util p_pedit_udp = {
>      NULL,
>      "udp",
>      parse_udp,
> };
>
> Same for tcp, icmp, ipv6 bits code ... :/ Is it still planned to eventually
> complete these?

someone else could run with it; at the moment i think this was ok at
small scale but it hasnt worked well in a larger scale. When you write
other apps (other than tc) to use these APIs parsing all the 32 bit
chunks is more cumbersome then getting a struct which gives me precise
info.

I agree that from a usability PoV, it might be nice to
> have some kind of 'pretty printer' for it besides the existing config
> parser there (e.g. when we know that a loaded instance was done with a
> high-level module, we could annotate that for retrieval on dump or such).
>

If i could tag the structure with something the kernel then returns to
me when i dump, I could add nice pretty printers (same arguement applies
to u32).
But that doesnt solve the programmability issue as being a good cause.

cheers,
jamal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-17  8:41 [PATCH net-next 1/1] net_sched: Introduce skbmod action Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-18  4:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-07-18  6:51   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-18  9:44     ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-07-18 10:07       ` Thomas Graf
2016-07-18 10:26         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-18 17:38           ` Cong Wang
2016-07-19 10:28             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-18 10:08       ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2016-07-19 13:21         ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-07-19 13:56           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-19 15:03             ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-07-19 18:04               ` Cong Wang
2016-07-20  0:23                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-07-21  7:27                   ` WAS ( " Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-21 14:42                     ` Daniel Borkmann

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