Re: [PATCH net-next] tc: bpf: add checksum helpers

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On 04/02/2015 07:56 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
On 4/2/2015 10:46 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:34:59PM CEST, ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 4/2/2015 8:21 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
On 04/02/2015 05:15 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:00:47PM CEST, daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 04/02/2015 02:12 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
Commit 608cd71a9c7c ("tc: bpf: generalize pedit action") has added the
possibility to mangle packet data to BPF programs in the tc pipeline.
This patch adds two helpers bpf_l3_csum_replace() and
bpf_l4_csum_replace()
for fixing up the protocol checksums after the packet mangling.

It also adds 'flags' argument to bpf_skb_store_bytes() helper to avoid
unnecessary checksum recomputations when BPF programs adjusting l3/l4
checksums and documents all three helpers in uapi header.

Moreover, a sample program is added to show how BPF programs can
make use
of the mangle and csum helpers.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think in future we need to find a better place for these helpers,
as they are for cls_bpf and act_bpf.

Yeah, makes sense to now have it in net/core/filter.c. How about to
create net/bpf dir for these?

I was thinking somewhere under net/sched/, f.e. net/sched/bpf.c
as probably kernel/bpf/ would end up in too much ifdef pasta. :/

I would prefer to keep mangle and csum helpers in net/core/filter.c for
now, since it's not clear what networking subsystems beyond TC would
want to use them in the future. Otherwise we'll keep moving them back
and forth.

Well, therefore I suggested net/bpf/ dir as a place to store
net-subsystem specific bpf stuff.

ahh. misread your earlier statement. yes. makes sense in long term.
Right now feels too early to create a dir for just 3 functions.
Eventually half of filter.c probably belongs in there.

Agreed, yeah. I think we should keep that refactoring in mind in
the mid-long term, but I guess a single file somewhere under net/core/
might be enough then.
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