On 19/05/2020 10:04, Vlad Buslov wrote: > On Mon 18 May 2020 at 18:37, Edward Cree <ec...@solarflare.com> wrote: >> I.e. if next year it turns out that some >> user needs one parameter that's been omitted here, but not the whole dump, >> are they going to want to add another mode to the uapi? > Why not just extend terse dump? I won't break user land unless you are > removing something from it. But then all terse dump users pay the performance cost for thatone app's extra need.
> - Generic data is covered by current terse dump implementation. > Everything else will be act or cls specific Fair point. I don't suppose something something BPF mumble solve this? I haven't been following the BPF dumping work in detail but it sounds like it might be a cheap way to get the 'more performant next step' that was mentioned in the subthread with David. Just a thought. -ed
