From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ziyang Men" <ziyang.meme@gmail.com>,
"Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Josef Bacik" <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"Emil Tsalapatis" <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
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"JP Kobryn" <inwardvessel@gmail.com>,
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linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: add BPF kfuncs to read blkcg io.stat
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:07:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anvCwytP6-9z0tEF@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <anot9w6mg9538RWm@slm.duckdns.org>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 10:00:55AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 12:37:31PM -0700, Ziyang Men wrote:
> > +__bpf_kfunc struct blkcg *bpf_get_root_blkcg(void)
> > +__bpf_kfunc struct blkcg *bpf_get_blkcg(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
> > +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_put_blkcg(struct blkcg *blkcg)
> > +__bpf_kfunc void bpf_blkcg_flush_stats(struct blkcg *blkcg)
>
> I wonder whether making the above deal with css's would make more sense so
> that we don't end up with per-subsystem iterators. If casting to per-subsys
> type is necessary, we can provide RCU protected cast kfucns.
>
Hi Tejun, (sorry for asking dumb questions) is the concern you have is that with
the current approach, we will have get_root/get/put kfuncs for each subsystem or
something else? Also how will the current approach leads to per-subsystem
iterators?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-07 19:37 [PATCH 0/2] block: expose blkcg io.stat to BPF Ziyang Men
2026-08-07 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: add BPF kfuncs to read blkcg io.stat Ziyang Men
2026-08-10 20:00 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-10 22:46 ` Ziyang Men
2026-08-11 0:17 ` JP Kobryn
2026-08-11 16:54 ` Tejun Heo
2026-08-11 22:07 ` JP Kobryn
2026-08-12 1:07 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-08-07 19:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/bpf: add test for blkcg io.stat BPF kfuncs Ziyang Men
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