From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:04:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f4228a7-9a55-1ca5-f36f-62ef30393c90@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d8bfaa7-b692-ae0f-43a4-293a33012502@mojatatu.com>
On 10/11/18 10:46 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 2018-10-11 12:16 p.m., David Ahern wrote:
>
> Yes, you can do it with cBPF but some complexity may occur. Example:
> if i was interested to netdevice events of "kind = vxlan &&
> admin flag is down" then that is non trivial to do with classical but
> would be reasonably comfortable to do with ebpf.
> Note:
> That filter will work fine for dumps as well since the semantics
> are the same.
You can already filter link dumps by kind. How? By passing in the KIND
attribute on a dump request. This type of filtering exists for link
dumps, neighbor dumps, fdb dumps. Why is there a push to make route
dumps different? Why can't they be consistent and use existing semantics?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-12 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-11 15:06 [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 1/9] net: Add struct for fib dump filter David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 2/9] net/ipv4: Plumb support for filtering route dumps David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-10-11 16:44 ` David Ahern
2018-10-11 18:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] net/ipv6: " David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] net/mpls: " David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] net: Plumb support for filtering ipv4 and ipv6 multicast " David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] net: Enable kernel side filtering of " David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] net/mpls: Handle " David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] net/ipv6: Bail early if user only wants cloned entries David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:06 ` [PATCH net-next 9/9] net/ipv4: Bail early if user only wants prefix entries David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:26 ` [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps Stephen Hemminger
2018-10-11 15:32 ` David Ahern
2018-10-11 16:10 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-11 16:13 ` David Ahern
2018-10-11 15:46 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-11 16:07 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-10-11 16:16 ` David Ahern
2018-10-11 16:33 ` Roopa Prabhu
2018-10-11 16:37 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-11 16:46 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-10-11 17:04 ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-10-11 18:05 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-10-11 18:44 ` David Ahern
2018-10-11 19:28 ` David Miller
2018-10-11 19:32 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-11 19:43 ` David Miller
2018-10-11 19:54 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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