From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:52:38 -0800 > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:14:33AM -0800, David Miller wrote: >> >> Thomas, >> >> I am working on eliminating the explicit softirq disables around BPF >> program invocation and replacing it with local lock usage instead. >> >> We would really need to at least have the non-RT stubs upstream to >> propagate this cleanly, do you think this is possible? > > Hi Thomas, > > seconding the same question: any chance local lock api can be sent upstream > soon? If api skeleton can get in during this merge window we will have the next > bpf-next/net-next cycle to sort out details. If not the bpf+rt would need to > wait one more release. Not a big deal. Just trying to figure out a time line > when can we start working on concrete bpf+rt patches. FWIW, I have some simple patches I'm working on that start to annotate the bpf function invocation call sites. And as part of that I add the non-RT stubs plus some new interfaces I think might be necessary. I've been told Thomas is going to be offline for another week so I'll just keep working on this and post when I have something concrete.
