Re: [PATCH] net: introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS
From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2013-11-28 17:31:30
On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 12:57 +0100, Michal Sekletar wrote:
+enum {
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_PROTOCOL = (1 << 0),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_PKTTYPE = (1 << 1),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_IFINDEX = (1 << 2),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_NLATTR = (1 << 3),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_NLATTR_NEST = (1 << 4),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_MARK = (1 << 5),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_QUEUE = (1 << 6),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_HATYPE = (1 << 7),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_RXHASH = (1 << 8),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_CPU = (1 << 9),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_ALU_XOR_X = (1 << 10),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_SECCOMP_LD_W = (1 << 11),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_VLAN_TAG = (1 << 12),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_VLAN_TAG_PRESENT = (1 << 13),
+ BPF_ANC_FLAG_PAY_OFFSET = (1 << 14),
+};
+Why spending 15 bits (out of 32), for all these extensions ? It seems a single one should be enough. I do not think we will ever remove one of these extension.