From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"David Ahern" <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC bpf-next 1/2] bpf_redirect_neigh: Support supplying the nexthop as a helper parameter
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:09:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5365aae3-dd9c-fdde-822b-636cbcd33669@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blh3gu5q.fsf@toke.dk>
On 10/15/20 9:34 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 10/15/20 9:46 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
>>> index bf5a99d803e4..980cc1363be8 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
>>> @@ -3677,15 +3677,19 @@ union bpf_attr {
>>> * Return
>>> * The id is returned or 0 in case the id could not be retrieved.
>>> *
>>> - * long bpf_redirect_neigh(u32 ifindex, u64 flags)
>>> + * long bpf_redirect_neigh(u32 ifindex, struct bpf_redir_neigh *params, int plen, u64 flags)
>>
>> why not fold ifindex into params? with params and plen this should be
>> extensible later if needed.
>
> Figured this way would make it easier to run *without* the params (like
> in the existing examples). But don't feel strongly about it, let's see
> what Daniel thinks.
My preference is what Toke has here, this simplifies use by just being able to
call bpf_redirect_neigh(ifindex, NULL, 0, 0) when just single external facing
device is used.
>> A couple of nits below that caught me eye.
>
> Thanks, will fix; the kernel bot also found a sparse warning, so I guess
> I need to respin anyway (but waiting for Daniel's comments and/or
> instructions on what tree to properly submit this to).
Given API change, lets do bpf. (Will review the rest later today.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-15 15:46 [PATCH RFC bpf-next 0/2] bpf: Rework bpf_redirect_neigh() to allow supplying nexthop from caller Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-15 15:46 ` [PATCH RFC bpf-next 1/2] bpf_redirect_neigh: Support supplying the nexthop as a helper parameter Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-15 16:27 ` David Ahern
2020-10-15 19:34 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-19 13:09 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2020-10-19 13:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-19 14:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-10-19 14:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-19 15:01 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-10-15 15:46 ` [PATCH RFC bpf-next 2/2] selftests: Update test_tc_neigh to use the modified bpf_redirect_neigh() Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-10-19 14:40 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-10-19 14:48 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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