netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] flow dissector: ND support

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Date:   Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:56:23 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dinan Gunawardena <dinan.gunawardena@...ronome.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] flow dissector: ND support

On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 10:36 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:

> It's going to be a problem with a whole host of application level
> protocols especially those run over UDP. QUIC is a great example. The
> actual protocol will probably only ever run in userspace, but it is
> inevitable that we want to provide targeted kernel support for packet
> steering. filtering, GRO/GSO if they have such things. Instead of
> implementing this in a specialized QUIC module, it will most likely
> make everyone happier to add these in a generic protocol-agnostic way.
> From QUIC POV they want to minimize any dependencies on the kernel and
> be able to iterate quickly, from a kernel POV we really don't want to
> have to explicitly support an endless stream of protocols like this.

Small note here : Google does not intend to add QUIC knowledge anywhere
in the kernel.

SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF can be used if someone wants to take a deep
look at QUIC header (and presumably hash the connection-id) to select
one socket among the group.

Thanks.