netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps

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Message-ID: <7f4228a7-9a55-1ca5-f36f-62ef30393c90@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:04:15 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps

On 10/11/18 10:46 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 2018-10-11 12:16 p.m., David Ahern wrote:
> 
> Yes, you can do it with cBPF but some complexity may occur. Example:
> if i was interested to netdevice events of "kind = vxlan &&
> admin flag is down" then that is non trivial to do with classical but
> would be reasonably comfortable to do with ebpf.
> Note:
> That filter will work fine for dumps as well since the semantics
> are the same.

You can already filter link dumps by kind. How? By passing in the KIND
attribute on a dump request. This type of filtering exists for link
dumps, neighbor dumps, fdb dumps. Why is there a push to make route
dumps different? Why can't they be consistent and use existing semantics?