netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] bpf: expose bpf_{s,g}etsockopt helpers to bind{4,6} hooks

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Date:   Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:32:44 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] bpf: expose bpf_{s,g}etsockopt helpers to
 bind{4,6} hooks

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 09:25:13AM -0800, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> This might be useful for the listener sockets to pre-populate
> some options. Since those helpers require locked sockets,
> I'm changing bind hooks to lock/unlock the sockets. This
> should not cause any performance overhead because at this
> point there shouldn't be any socket lock contention and the
> locking/unlocking should be cheap.
> 
> Also, as part of the series, I convert test_sock_addr bpf
> assembly into C (and preserve the narrow load tests) to
> make it easier to extend with th bpf_setsockopt later on.
> 
> v2:
> * remove version from bpf programs (Andrii Nakryiko)

Applied, Thanks