netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net/tc: introduce TC_ACT

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:07:38 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_MIRRED.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:03 AM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> This is similar TC_ACT_REDIRECT, but with a slightly different
> semantic:
> - on ingress the mirred skbs are passed to the target device
> network stack without any additional check not scrubbing.
> - the rcu-protected stats provided via the tcf_result struct
>   are updated on error conditions.

At least its name sucks, it means to skip the skb_clone(),
that is avoid a copy, but you still call it MIRRED...

MIRRED means MIRror and REDirect.

Also, I don't understand why this new TC_ACT code needs
to be visible to user-space, whether to clone or not is purely
internal.