netdev - Re: [Patch bpf-next v2 0/5] bpf: introduce timeout map

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Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:12:28 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch bpf-next v2 0/5] bpf: introduce timeout map

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:29 AM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:13 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
> >
> > This patchset introduces a new bpf hash map which has timeout.
>
> It's a bit too short a cover letter for a pretty major new type of
> hash maps. Please expand on the problem it's trying to solve, how you
> tested and benchmarked it, etc.

I prefer to put everything in each patch description, because `git log` is easy
to find it after merging. (I know we can retain this cover letter but
it is not directly
shown in `git log kernel/bpf/hashtab.c`)

Please reply to patch 3 if you think anything is missing in its description.

Thanks!