From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ecree@solarflare.com
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jiri@resnulli.us, saeedm@mellanox.com, vishal@chelsio.com,
vladbu@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v5 3/4] net: flow_offload: mangle action at byte level
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:02:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191017.140251.1580977190222713975.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4d14782-25dd-11a1-4147-2d8547ced3d1@solarflare.com>
From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:59:22 +0100
> Pedit is supposed to work even in the absence of protocol knowledge in
> the kernel (e.g. in combination with cls_u32, you can filter and mangle
> traffic in a completely new protocol), you're turning it into Yet
> Another Ossified TCP/IP Monoculture. This is not the direction the
> networking offloads community is trying to move in.
Agreed, the proposed changes are taking the code and interfaces in
completely the wrong direction.
I agree with Jakub and Edward on all of these points.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-17 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-14 22:10 [PATCH net-next,v5 0/4] flow_offload: update mangle action representation Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-14 22:10 ` [PATCH net-next,v5 1/4] net: flow_offload: flip mangle action mask Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-15 6:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-14 22:10 ` [PATCH net-next,v5 2/4] net: flow_offload: bitwise AND on mangle action value field Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-15 6:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-14 22:10 ` [PATCH net-next,v5 3/4] net: flow_offload: mangle action at byte level Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-15 8:48 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-15 8:48 ` [RFC PATCH] net: flow_offload: tc_proto_udp_hdr[] can be static kbuild test robot
2019-10-16 23:36 ` [PATCH net-next,v5 3/4] net: flow_offload: mangle action at byte level Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-17 16:11 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-17 16:22 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-17 17:59 ` Edward Cree
2019-10-17 18:02 ` David Miller [this message]
2019-10-17 17:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-17 17:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-17 18:01 ` Edward Cree
2019-10-17 18:03 ` David Miller
2019-10-14 22:10 ` [PATCH net-next,v5 4/4] netfilter: nft_payload: packet mangling offload support Pablo Neira Ayuso
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