Re: [PATCH RFC bpf-next 0/7] Add bpf_link based TC-BPF API

On 6/13/21 11:10 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

On 2021-06-13 4:34 p.m., Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:57:16AM IST, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

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Right, also I'm just posting so that the use cases I care about are clear, and
why they are not being fulifilled in some other way. How to do it is ofcourse up
to TC and BPF maintainers, which is why I'm still waiting on feedback from you,
Cong and others before posting the next version.

I look at it from the perspective that if i can run something with
existing tc loading mechanism then i should be able to do the same
with the new (libbpf) scheme.

The intention is not to provide a full-blown tc library (that could be subject to a
libtc or such), but rather to only have libbpf abstract the tc related API that is
most /relevant/ for BPF program development and /efficient/ in terms of execution in
fast-path while at the same time providing a good user experience from the API itself.

That is, simple to use and straight forward to explain to folks with otherwise zero
experience of tc. The current implementation does all that, and from experience with
large BPF programs managed via cls_bpf that is all that is actually needed from tc
layer perspective. The ability to have multi programs (incl. priorities) is in the
existing libbpf API as well.

Best,
Daniel