netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/7] bpf: add MAP_LOOKUP_AND_DELETE

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:51:38 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Mauricio Vasquez <mauricio.vasquez@...ito.it>
Cc:     Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/7] bpf: add MAP_LOOKUP_AND_DELETE_ELEM
 syscall

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 05:50:01PM -0500, Mauricio Vasquez wrote:
> > > Does it make sense to you?
> > I reread the other patch, and found it does NOT use the following logic for
> > queue and stack:
> > 
> >                 rcu_read_lock();
> >                 ptr = map->ops->map_lookup_and_delete_elem(map, key);
> >                 if (ptr)
> >                         memcpy(value, ptr, value_size);
> > 
> > I guess this part is not used at all? Can we just remove it?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Song
> 
> This is the base code for map_lookup_and_delete support, it is not used in
> queue/stack maps.
> 
> I think we can leave it there, so when somebody implements lookup_and_delete
> for other maps doesn't have to care about implementing also this.

The code looks useful to me, but I also agree with Song. And in the kernel
we don't typically add 'almost dead code'.
May be provide an implementation of the lookup_and_delete for hash map
so it's actually used ?
imo it would be a useful feature to have for hash map and will clarify
the intent of it for all other maps and for stack/queue in particular.