Re: [PATCH v10 net-next 0/2] load imm64 insn and uapi/linux/bpf.h

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast-uqk4Ao+rVK5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Thu,  4 Sep 2014 22:17:16 -0700

V9->V10
- no changes, added Daniel's ack

Note they're on top of Hannes's patch in the same area [1]

V8 thread with 'why' reasoning and end goal [2]

Original set [3] of ~28 patches I'm planning to present in 4 stages:

  I. this 2 patches to fork off llvm upstreaming
 II. bpf syscall with manpage and map implementation
III. bpf program load/unload with verifier testsuite (1st user of
     instruction macros from bpf.h and 1st user of load imm64 insn)
 IV. tracing, etc

[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/385266/
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/27/628
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/859

Begrudgingly, I've applied this series.

Although I really wish you had included the mechanism for userland to
use the eBPF instructions alongside exporting them to userspace.

You kept saying "LLVM is the user" but that's a bullshit argument
because you aren't including the patches necessary to actually
propagate native eBPF programs into the kernel.

That's what, 1 or 2 patches, right?  Which is not an unreasonable
request.

Anyways, I'm just extremely frustrated with how you operate and work,
you push things way too hard.  I hate to say this, but you are the
kind of submitter who gets his way by being persistent rather than
making well formed pleasant submissions that are easy to integrate.