Re: Repo for tips / tricks / common code?

[Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>]

Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 9:15 AM Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>> Is there any interest in a repo or something for reusable BPF code bits?
>>   I've got some stuff that I do in my programs that might be useful to
>> others, but not to the level of a full bpf helper.
>>
>> For instance, one technique I've developed is to have list-like data
>> structures for *mmappable* data that are e.g. per-cpu and per-task.
>> Internally, it's an Array map, and each element is identified by its
>> index in the array instead of by point.  And the linked-list is built
>> with index integers instead of pointers.
>>
>> Anyway, that's just an example, and I imagine other people have their
>> own techniques.  I've got the code sitting in an open-source repo
>> elsewhere, and had a couple people off-list ask me about it.  I could
>> email it to the list, but it'd get lost in the noise.
>>
>> If you're curious about specifics, the linked list code is here [1], and
>> I briefly mentioned the data structures in my LPC 22 talk [2].  I've got
>> an AVL tree that works with this stuff too.
>
> I think github would be the best place for such code.
> https://github.com/libbpf/.../ maybe?

Or potentially:

https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples

>
>> Thanks,
>> Barret