From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 iproute2 2/2] actions: Add support for user cookies Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:24:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20170218162417.448989e8@xeon-e3> References: <1486725944-16898-1-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> <1486725944-16898-2-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mrv@mojatatu.com To: Jamal Hadi Salim Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:34305 "EHLO mail-pg0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbdBSAYT (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:24:19 -0500 Received: by mail-pg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id z67so25488975pgb.1 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:24:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1486725944-16898-2-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:25:44 -0500 Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > From: Jamal Hadi Salim > > Make use of 128b user cookies > > Introduce optional 128-bit action cookie. > Like all other cookie schemes in the networking world (eg in protocols > like http or existing kernel fib protocol field, etc) the idea is to > save user state that when retrieved serves as a correlator. The kernel > _should not_ intepret it. The user can store whatever they wish in the > 128 bits. The support for this has not been accepted upstream in net-next yet. Therefore submitting it into iproute2 is premature. Pleas resubmit when the kernel part (and uapi) are upstream.