From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: "David Ahern" <dsahern@gmail.com>,
"Lorenz Bauer" <lmb@cloudflare.com>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@fb.com>,
"Song Liu" <songliubraving@fb.com>, "Yonghong Song" <yhs@fb.com>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andriin@fb.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <brouer@redhat.com>,
"Andrey Ignatov" <rdna@fb.com>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:16:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200331221613.uwk6vmlrwggbj4s7@ast-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c55c053-ab95-3657-e271-dd47c1daaf5e@solarflare.com>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:05:50PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> On 31/03/2020 04:43, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 04:25:07PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> >> Everything that a human operator can do, so can any program with the
> >> same capabilities/wheel bits. Especially as the API that the
> >> operator-tool uses *will* be open and documented. The Unix Way does
> >> not allow unscriptable interfaces, and heavily frowns at any kind of
> >> distinction between 'humans' and 'programs'.
> > can you share a link on such philosophy?
> It's not quite as explicit about it as I'd like, but
> http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2877684
> is the closest I can find right now.
I knew the bit you linked and I've read several "Rule of" up and down
in that doc and still don't see any mention of 'humans' vs 'programs'.
Unix philosophy can be rephrased as divide-and-conquer which is #1
principle in bpf architecture. In other words: build the smallest
possible mechanisms that are composable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-31 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-19 13:13 [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] XDP: Support atomic replacement of XDP interface attachments Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 22:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 8:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 18:17 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 18:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 18:30 ` John Fastabend
2020-03-20 20:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 11:24 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-23 16:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-23 18:14 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 19:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-24 1:01 ` David Ahern
2020-03-24 4:53 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 20:55 ` David Ahern
2020-03-24 22:56 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 5:00 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-24 10:57 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-24 18:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-24 22:30 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-25 1:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-24 19:22 ` John Fastabend
2020-03-25 1:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 2:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 18:06 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 18:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 19:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 10:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 18:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-25 10:30 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 17:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-24 22:25 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-25 9:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-25 17:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 0:16 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 5:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26 18:09 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 19:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 20:05 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-27 11:09 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-27 23:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 10:04 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-26 17:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26 19:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 18:18 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-26 19:53 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 11:11 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 20:21 ` bpf: ability to attach freplace to multiple parents Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-02 21:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 21:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-03 8:38 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-07 1:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-07 9:20 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 8:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 9:53 ` Alan Maguire
2020-05-12 13:02 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-05-12 23:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-05-12 23:06 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-05-13 10:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-04-02 21:24 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-04-02 22:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-26 12:35 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] xdp: Support specifying expected existing program when attaching XDP Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-26 19:06 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 11:06 ` Lorenz Bauer
2020-03-27 16:12 ` David Ahern
2020-03-27 20:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 23:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-30 15:25 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-31 3:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-31 22:05 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-31 22:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2020-03-27 19:42 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 19:45 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 23:09 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 11:46 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 20:07 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-27 22:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 22:54 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-28 1:09 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 1:44 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-28 19:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-26 19:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-27 12:06 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-27 23:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-28 1:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 2:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-28 19:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-28 23:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-29 10:39 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-29 19:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-30 10:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-29 20:23 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-30 13:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-30 20:17 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-31 10:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-31 13:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-31 15:00 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-31 20:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-31 20:15 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-30 15:41 ` Edward Cree
2020-03-30 19:13 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-31 4:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-31 11:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-31 18:52 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-20 20:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 20:40 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 21:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 21:55 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-03-20 23:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-20 20:39 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 11:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-23 18:07 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-23 23:54 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-03-24 10:16 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-20 2:13 ` Yonghong Song
2020-03-20 8:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] tools: Add EXPECTED_FD-related definitions in if_link.h Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] libbpf: Add function to set link XDP fd while specifying old fd Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-03-19 13:13 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: Add tests for attaching XDP programs Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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