netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel encapsulation

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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 16:58:42 -0600
From:   Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] bpf: BPF for lightweight tunnel encapsulation

On 2 November 2016 at 07:39, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/net/core/Makefile b/net/core/Makefile
>> index d6508c2..a675fd3 100644
>> --- a/net/core/Makefile
>> +++ b/net/core/Makefile
>> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING) += timestamping.o
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_NET_PTP_CLASSIFY) += ptp_classifier.o
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO) += netprio_cgroup.o
>>  obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_CLASSID) += netclassid_cgroup.o
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_LWTUNNEL) += lwtunnel.o
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_LWTUNNEL) += lwtunnel.o lwt_bpf.o
>
> Any reason you want to keep lwt bpf under the main CONFIG_LWTUNNEL infra config ?.
> since it is defined as yet another plug-gable encap function, seems like it will be better under a separate
> CONFIG_LWTUNNEL_BPF or CONFIG_LWT_BPF that depends on CONFIG_LWTUNNEL

The code was so minimal with no additional dependencies that I didn't
see a need for a separate Kconfig. I'm fine adding that in the next
iteration though. No objections.