Re: [PATCH net-next v7 3/7] gtp: Implement GTP echo request

[Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>]

Hi Wojciech,

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 09:38:08AM +0000, Drewek, Wojciech wrote:

> > I think either the Tx and the Rx ard triggered by / notified to userspace,
> > or you would also do periodic triggering of Tx in the kernel autonomously,
> > and process the responses.  But at that point then you also need to think
> > about further consequences, such as counting the number of missed ECHO RESP,
> > and then notify userspace if that condition "N out of M last responses missed".
> > 
> 
> I thought that with the GTP device created from ip link, userspace
> would be unable to receive Echo Response (similar to Echo Request).
> If it's not the case than I will get rid of handling Echo Response in the
> next version.

Well, userspace cannot 'receive' the ECHO response through the UDP socket as
the UDP socket is hidden in the kernel.  I was thinking of the same mechanism
you introduce for transmit:  You can trigger the Tx of GTP ECHO REQ via netlink,
so why shouldn't you receive a notifiation about its completion also via netlink?

Just don't think of it as sending an ECHO REQ via netlink, but triggering the tx
and acknowledging the completion/reception of a related response.

One of the advantages of the existing mechanism via 'socket is held in userspace'
is that we don't have to jump through any such hoops or invent strange interfaces:
The process can just send and receive the messages as usual via UDP socket related
syscalls.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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