netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v11 0/7] bpf: add BPF_LWT_ENCAP_IP option to bpf_lwt_push

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Message-ID: <783b5578-cba4-904d-4ade-c8c08b47a3ba@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:46:26 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Peter Oskolkov <posk@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Peter Oskolkov <posk@...k.io>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v11 0/7] bpf: add BPF_LWT_ENCAP_IP option to
 bpf_lwt_push_encap

On 2/13/19 12:53 PM, Peter Oskolkov wrote:
> This patchset implements BPF_LWT_ENCAP_IP mode in bpf_lwt_push_encap
> BPF helper. It enables BPF programs (specifically, BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_IN
> and BPF_PROG_TYPE_LWT_XMIT prog types) to add IP encapsulation headers
> to packets (e.g. IP/GRE, GUE, IPIP).
> 
> This is useful when thousands of different short-lived flows should be
> encapped, each with different and dynamically determined destination.
> Although lwtunnels can be used in some of these scenarios, the ability
> to dynamically generate encap headers adds more flexibility, e.g.
> when routing depends on the state of the host (reflected in global bpf
> maps).
> 


For the set:
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>