Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] Add eBPF hooks for cgroups

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On 09/13/16 at 09:42pm, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:24:08PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

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Then you have to explain me how can anyone else than systemd use this
infrastructure?

Jokes aside. I'm puzzled why systemd is even being mentioned here.
Here we use tupperware (our internal container management system) that
is heavily using cgroups and has nothing to do with systemd.

Just confirming that we are planning to use this decoupled from
systemd as well.  I fail to see how this is at all systemd specific.

For us this cgroup+bpf is _not_ for filterting and _not_ for security.
We run a ton of tasks in cgroups that launch all sorts of
things on their own. We need to monitor what they do from networking
point of view. Therefore bpf programs need to monitor the traffic in
particular part of cgroup hierarchy. Not globally and no pass/drop decisions.

+10, although filtering/drop is a valid use case, the really strong
use case is definitely introspection at networking level. Statistics,
monitoring, verification of application correctness, etc. 

I don't see why this is at all an either or discussion. If nft wants
cgroups integration similar to this effort, I see no reason why that
should stop this effort.