netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: add SO_KEEPALIVE and related options to bpf

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 23:44:48 +0300
From:   Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@...dex-team.ru>
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "brakmo@...com" <brakmo@...com>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: add SO_KEEPALIVE and related options to bpf_setsockopt



27.05.2020, 20:03, "Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@...com>:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 06:05:43PM +0300, Dmitry Yakunin wrote:
>>  This patch adds support of SO_KEEPALIVE flag and TCP related options
>>  to bpf_setsockopt() routine. This is helpful if we want to enable or tune
>>  TCP keepalive for applications which don't do it in the userspace code.
>>  In order to avoid copy-paste, common code from classic setsockopt was moved
>>  to auxiliary functions in the headers.
>
> Thanks for refatoring some of the pieces. I suspect some more can be done.
> In the long run, I don't think this copy-and-paste is scalable.
> For most of the options (integer value and do not need ns_capable()),
> do_tcp_setsockopt() and sock_setsockopt() can be directly called with
> some refactoring.
>
> The change looks good. For this patch,
>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>

Thanks for your comment, Martin.
I agree with you, bpf_setsockopt and older setsockopts should be refactored to use common code.
I'll keep this in mind if i want to add new options.