On 7/18/23 12:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:06:29 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >> netlink feels like a weird API choice for that, in particular it would >> be really wrong to somehow bind the lifecycle of a netlink object to a >> process. > > Netlink is the right API, life cycle of objects can be easily tied to > a netlink socket. That is an untuitive connection -- memory references, h/w queues, flow steering should be tied to the datapath socket, not a control plane socket.