Re: bpf-next experiment

Jakub Kicinski
2024-08-15T00:53:34Z

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:32:00 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> Couple years ago folks suggested that bpf-next should be
> a separate pull request to increase subsystem visibility.
> Back then we rejected the idea since many networking related
> changes required bpf core changes. Things are different now.
> bpf kfuncs can be added independently by various subsystems,
> verifier additions are mainly driven by sched-ext,
> so it's time to give it a shot. It's an experiment.
> If things don't work out as expected we will go back to
> the old model of feeding bpf trees through net/net-next trees.

Excellent, fingers crossed :)