netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] xdp: remove net_device names from xdp

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Message-ID: <599CA0BA.2020103@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:23:06 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] xdp: remove net_device names from xdp_redirect
 tracepoint

On 08/22/2017 10:47 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> There is too much overhead in the current trace_xdp_redirect
> tracepoint as it does strcpy and strlen on the net_device names.
>
> Besides, exposing the ifindex/index is actually the information that
> is needed in the tracepoint to diagnose issues.  When a lookup fails
> (either ifindex or devmap index) then there is a need for saying which
> to_index that have issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>