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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, tgraf@suug.ch,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:43:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5621B5BC.8020204@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvviidku.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On 10/16/15 4:44 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> writes:
>
>> We can argue about api for 2nd, whether it's mount with fd=1234 string
>> or else, but for the first mount style doesn't make sense.
>
> Why does mount not make sense?  It is exactly what you are looking for
> so why does it not make sense?

hmm, how do you get a new fd back after mounting it?
Note, open cannot be overloaded, so we end up with BPF_NEW_FD anyway,
but now it's more convoluted and empty mounts are everywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-17  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-16  1:09 [PATCH net-next 0/4] BPF updates Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16  1:09 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] bpf: abstract anon_inode_getfd invocations Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16  1:09 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] bpf: align and clean bpf_{map,prog}_get helpers Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16  1:09 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16 10:25   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-16 13:36     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16 16:36       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-16 17:27         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16 17:37           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 16:18     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 16:43       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-16 17:32         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 17:37           ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-16 17:21   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-16 17:42     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 17:56       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16 18:41         ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-16 19:27           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 19:53             ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-16 20:56               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 23:44                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-17  2:43                   ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-10-17 12:28                     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-18  2:20                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-18 15:03                         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-18 16:49                           ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-18 20:59                             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19  7:36                               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-19  9:51                                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-19 14:23                                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-19 16:22                                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19 17:37                                       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-19 18:15                                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19 18:46                                           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-19 19:34                                             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19 20:03                                               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-19 20:48                                                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19 22:17                                                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-20  0:30                                                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-20  8:46                                                       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-20 17:53                                                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-20 18:56                                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-21 15:17                                                             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-21 18:34                                                               ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-21 22:44                                                                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22 13:22                                                                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-22 19:35                                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-23 13:47                                                                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-20  9:43                                                       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-19 23:02                                                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-20  1:09                                                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-20 10:07                                                       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-20 18:44                                                         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-16 19:54             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-16  1:09 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] bpf: add sample usages " Daniel Borkmann
2015-10-19  2:53 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] BPF updates David Miller

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