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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: luto@amacapital.net, mingo@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	wangnan0@huawei.com, lizefan@huawei.com,
	daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] bpf: share helpers between tracing and networking
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:10:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55827CF2.3000605@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558058A0.7030201@plumgrid.com>

On 06/16/2015 07:10 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
...
> Ideally we would allow a blend of tracing and networking programs,
> then the best solution would be one or two stable tracepoints in
> networking stack where skb is visible and receiving/transmitting task
> is also visible, then skb->len and task->pid together would give nice
> foundation for accurate stats.

I think combining both seems interesting anyway, we need to find
a way to make this gluing of both worlds easy to use, though. It's
certainly interesting for stats/diagnostics, but one wouldn't be
able to use the current/future skb eBPF helpers from {cls,act}_bpf
in that context.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-13  2:39 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] bpf: share helpers between tracing and networking Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-13  2:39 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] bpf: introduce current->pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-13  2:39 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] bpf: allow networking programs to use bpf_trace_printk() for debugging Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-13  2:39 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] bpf: let kprobe programs use bpf_get_smp_processor_id() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-13  8:23   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-06-15 23:01 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] bpf: share helpers between tracing and networking David Miller
2015-06-16  3:28   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-16  9:19     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-06-16 17:10       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-06-18  8:10         ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]

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