netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] tc: make ingress and egress qdiscs consistent

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:34:15 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] tc: make ingress and egress qdiscs
 consistent

Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:27:57PM CEST, daniel@...earbox.net wrote:
>On 04/08/2015 03:14 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
>>On 04/08/15 at 08:58am, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>>On 04/08/15 08:31, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>>>That means the tc's cls_u32
>>>>sample selectors a la ip, ip6, udp, tcp, icmp don't work on ingress
>>>>either,so in u32 speak you would need to do that by hand, but that
>>>>doesn't work as you don't have the Ethernet type context available.
>>>>Am I missing something? :)
>>>
>>>u32 works fine. I am sure i have tests which run these on both
>>>in/egress.
>>
>>His point is that an u32 filter written for egress won't work at
>>ingress because the offsets are different. This has always been the
>>case and we can't break this behaviour either. I'm sure you have
>>these weird negative offset u32 egress filters in your repertoire
>>as well ;-)
>
>Okay, you can use negative offsets in cls_u32 to accomodate for
>that; so yeah, you'd need to implement your filter differently
>on ingress. That should also work on cls_bpf et al.

That is certainly doable. But is that what we want? I don't think so. I
would like to have the same for in/eg.

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