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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:53:33 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: bpf-next experiment
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:32:00 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> Couple years ago folks suggested that bpf-next should be
> a separate pull request to increase subsystem visibility.
> Back then we rejected the idea since many networking related
> changes required bpf core changes. Things are different now.
> bpf kfuncs can be added independently by various subsystems,
> verifier additions are mainly driven by sched-ext,
> so it's time to give it a shot. It's an experiment.
> If things don't work out as expected we will go back to
> the old model of feeding bpf trees through net/net-next trees.

Excellent, fingers crossed :)