netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] rds: invoke socket sg filter attached to rds socket

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:06:23 -0700
From:   "santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, davem@...emloft.net,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, quentin.monnet@...ronome.com,
        jiong.wang@...ronome.com, sandipan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, kafai@...com, rdna@...com, yhs@...com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] rds: invoke socket sg filter attached to rds
 socket

On 9/11/18 12:38 PM, Tushar Dave wrote:
> RDS module sits on top of TCP (rds_tcp) and IB (rds_rdma), so messages
> arrive in form of skb (over TCP) and scatterlist (over IB/RDMA).
> However, because socket filter only deal with skb (e.g. struct skb as
> bpf context) we can only use socket filter for rds_tcp and not for
> rds_rdma.
> 
> Considering one filtering solution for RDS, it seems that the common
> denominator between sk_buff and scatterlist is scatterlist. Therefore,
> this patch converts skb to sgvec and invoke sg_filter_run for
> rds_tcp and simply invoke sg_filter_run for IB/rds_rdma.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
> ---
I remember acking the earlier version. Here it is again..

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>