netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ebpf: Add sample ebpf program for SOCKET_SG

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Message-ID: <20180917232642.mn3zxcsyaxtx6t2d@ast-mbp>
Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:26:45 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Cc:     Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, davem@...emloft.net,
        santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ebpf: Add sample ebpf program for
 SOCKET_SG_FILTER

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 07:23:48PM -0400, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> On (09/17/18 16:15), Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > 
> > if the goal is to add firewall ability to RDS then the patch set
> > is going in the wrong direction.
> 
> The goal is to add the ability to process scatterlist directly,
> just like we process skb's today.

that doesn't answer my question and doesn't address the objection.
It is still a nack.