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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Florian Westphal" <fw@strlen.de>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
	"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: nf_tables: add ebpf expression
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 17:52:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <953e16f5-80bd-2098-bd7f-5f4fd74ceaaa@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQLYcjhpVaFJ3vriDcv=bczXddRd=q83exNNPrgnvsCEAg@mail.gmail.com>


Le 07/09/2022 à 05:04, Alexei Starovoitov a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 11:57 PM Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 31/08/2022 à 23:57, Florian Westphal a écrit :
>>> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> This helps gradually moving towards move epbf for those that
>>>>> still heavily rely on the classic forwarding path.
>>>>
>>>> No one is using it.
>>>> If it was, we would have seen at least one bug report over
>>>> all these years. We've seen none.
>>>
>>> Err, it IS used, else I would not have sent this patch.
>>>
>>>> very reasonable early on and turned out to be useless with
>>>> zero users.
>>>> BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT and BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT*
>>>> are in this category.
>>>
>>> I doubt it had 0 users.  Those users probably moved to something
>>> better?
>> We are using BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT to perform custom encapsulations.
>> What could we used to replace that?
> 
> SCHED_CLS. It has all of the features of cls and act combined.

Indeed, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-31 10:16 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: nf_tables: add ebpf expression Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 12:13 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-08-31 12:56   ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 13:41     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-08-31 13:57       ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 14:43         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-08-31 15:09           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-08-31 15:35             ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 20:38               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-08-31 15:26           ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 15:39             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-31 15:53               ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 17:26                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-31 21:49                   ` Daniel Borkmann
2022-09-01  5:18                     ` Eyal Birger
2022-09-02 16:53                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-09-05 17:50                         ` Eyal Birger
2022-09-01 10:14                     ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-02 17:06                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-09-02 17:52                         ` Florian Westphal
2022-08-31 21:57                   ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-06  6:57                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2022-09-07  3:04                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-09-07 15:52                         ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2022-09-01  8:08                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-08-31 20:44             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-08-31 13:44     ` Florian Westphal

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