Re: [PATCH net-next] tc: cls_bpf: make ingress and egress qdiscs consistent

[Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>]

On 4/3/15 4:48 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 01:26 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 04/04/2015 01:11 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> ...
>>> nope. will take it back.
>>> that doesn't work, since this check cannot be done in ingress_enqueue(),
>>> because it sees the pointer to first filter only, so both TCQ_F_INGRESS
>>> flag and CLS_REQUIRES_L2 flag need to be checked inside
>>
>> So on a quick glance, we're calling into cls_bpf_classify() in
>> tp->classify()
>> (net/sched/cls_api.c +265), so all remaining filters in that list we're
>> traversing in cls_bpf_classify() are all BPF filters, no?
>
> I see, you mean the classifier chain, not the chain of filters within
> the cls_bpf classifier, ok.

yes. the chain of classifiers can have different types, so we
cannot check it once in ingress_enqueue().
As you said we can refactor it later.