netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 4/4] bpftool: support loading flow dissector

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Message-ID: <20181108212940.wvfnkanxqs2owcy6@mini-arch>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:29:40 -0800
From:   Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 4/4] bpftool: support loading flow dissector

On 11/08, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed,  7 Nov 2018 21:39:57 -0800, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> > This commit adds support for loading/attaching/detaching flow
> > dissector program. The structure of the flow dissector program is
> > assumed to be the same as in the selftests:
> > 
> > * flow_dissector section with the main entry point
> > * a bunch of tail call progs
> > * a jmp_table map that is populated with the tail call progs
> 
> Could you split the loadall changes and the flow_dissector changes into
> two separate patches?
Sure, will do, but let's first agree on the semantical differences of
load vs loadall.

So far *load* actually loads _all_ progs (via bpf_object__load), but pins
only the first program. Is that what we want? I wonder whether the
assumption there was that there is only single program in the object.
Should we load only the first program in *load*?

If we add *loadall*, then the difference would be:
*load*:
  * loads all maps and only the first program, pins only the first
    program
*loadall*:
  * loads all maps and all programs, pins everything (maps and programs)

Is this the expected behavior?