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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com>,
	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 06:26:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578CAEB8.9070805@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718100717.GB30532@pox.localdomain>

On 16-07-18 06:07 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:

>
> Right. I was at the same point as Jamal and it is nasty to try and
> reverse engineer the dumps without any further hints. I assume that's
> what he is referring to with difficulties.
>

That +: if you get me a field which says "dstmac" i dont have to go
and start aggregating 32bit chunks to create a 48bit MAC (or worse
look at the offset and figure where they come from).

> Looking back, I would simply calculate a SHA hash over the original
> filter in text form, pass the hash together with the tc filter and then
> associate the hash with the filter text stored in user space. This
> would not only benefit pedit but also u32 and possibly others.
>

A "cookie" tag that is sent to the kernel would serve the purpose.
We would need to standardize what the meaning of such a cookie is.

> It also has the advantage that extending the kernel once now will allow
> to add additional higher level abstractions later on without requiring
> users to rebase their kernels.
>

Yes - and btw it works well with hardware offloads. It is a good free
form "assembler" level. But i dont think it serves well when we have
known often-used cases such as these.
It is like doing tcp over raw sockets - at some point it becomes more
efficient and more usable to just introduce tcp sockets. Thats all I
am asking for.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 10:26 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 [this message]
2016-07-18 17:38           ` Cong Wang
2016-07-19 10:28             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-07-18 10:08       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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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