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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat•com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, davem@davemloft•net
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, edumazet@google•com, dsahern@gmail•com,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] skb: make drop reason booleanable
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:57:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cziwy2ao.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220308004421.237826-1-kuba@kernel.org>

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org> writes:

> We have a number of cases where function returns drop/no drop
> decision as a boolean. Now that we want to report the reason
> code as well we have to pass extra output arguments.
>
> We can make the reason code evaluate correctly as bool.
>
> I believe we're good to reorder the reasons as they are
> reported to user space as strings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
> ---
> v2: use Eric's suggestion for the name, indeed better than mine
> ---
>  include/linux/skbuff.h |  1 +
>  include/net/tcp.h      | 21 +++++++++++----------
>  net/ipv4/tcp.c         | 21 +++++++++------------
>  net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c    | 12 +++++++-----
>  net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c    | 11 +++++++----
>  5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index 34f572271c0c..26538ceb4b01 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ struct sk_buff;
>   * used to translate the reason to string.
>   */
>  enum skb_drop_reason {
> +	SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET = 0,

Haha, nice! Even feels like this is touching on some deep philosophical
truth about the state of packets - the best they can hope for is to be
not dropped... yet! :D

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-08 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-08  0:44 [PATCH net-next] skb: make drop reason booleanable Jakub Kicinski
2022-03-08 13:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-03-08 16:35 ` David Ahern
2022-03-09 11:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-04  4:53 Jakub Kicinski
2022-03-04  5:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-03-04  6:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-04 15:31     ` David Ahern
2022-03-04 16:36       ` Eric Dumazet

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