Re: [RFC bpf-next v2 1/9] net: introduce __init_skb{,_data,_shinfo} helpers

[Eric Dumazet]

On 03/20/2019 08:39 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> I think you need to convince Dave and Eric that
> above surgery is necessary to do the hack in patch 6 with
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sk_buff, bpf_flow_skb);
> 

Yes, this is a huge code churn.

Honestly I believe we are going too far in this series.

> I think the better option it to introduce new prog type that works
> without skb. I think it can be pretty close to shape and form to xdp.
>