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From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Cc: Willem Ferguson <wferguson@cloudflare.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,  davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	 ncardwell@google.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
	daniel@iogearbox.net,  andrii@kernel.org, eddyz87@gmail.com,
	memxor@gmail.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,  corbet@lwn.net,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/4] tcp: carry a BPF-chosen identifier in TSval low bits
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:58:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <atekzexnMd27Kctl@devvm7509.cco0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a4oaf3mv.fsf@cloudflare.com>

On 10/19, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> Hey Stan,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 02:45 PM -07, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> > On 10/13, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Questions for reviewers:
> >> 
> >>  1. Is encoding an identifier in the low bits of TSval acceptable in
> >>     principle, given the trade-offs above?
> >>  2. If so, what feedback do you have on the implementation?
> >
> > Don't see any feedback yet, so from the top of my head: looks like you
> > control two sides of the communication, so why not a custom (bpf) tcp option?
> > Would you need that on every packet and it makes it expensive?
> >
> > Or any other field you can abuse maybe? IPv6 Flow label?
> 
> Nah, we don't control the client unfortunately.
> 
> Client here is any device that connects to our edge PoP.

I see, so you rely on the fact that it gets mirrored back.. Btw, looks like
there is already some similar tsoffset/ts_off infra? Have you considered
plugging into that?

      reply	other threads:[~2026-10-20 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-13 10:39 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/4] tcp: carry a BPF-chosen identifier in TSval low bits Willem Ferguson
2026-10-13 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/4] tcp: add plumbing to carry an " Willem Ferguson
2026-10-13 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/4] tcp: add BPF_SOCK_OPS_TCP_TS_ID_CB to assign a TSval identifier Willem Ferguson
2026-10-14 17:50   ` Jakub Sitnicki
2026-10-15 12:12     ` Jason Xing
2026-10-13 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/4] tcp: add TCP_TS_ID socket option Willem Ferguson
2026-10-13 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: add tcp_ts_id test Willem Ferguson
2026-10-15 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/4] tcp: carry a BPF-chosen identifier in TSval low bits Stanislav Fomichev
2026-10-19  9:20   ` Jakub Sitnicki
2026-10-20 17:58     ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]

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